Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (S.C. 2010, c. 21)

Marginal note:Requirement

• 13 (1) Any person who manufactures, imports, advertises, sells or tests a consumer product for commercial purposes shall prepare and maintain

  • (a) documents that indicate

    • (i) in the case of a retailer, the name and address of the person from whom they obtained the product and the location where and the period during which they sold the product, and

    • (ii) in the case of any other person, the name and address of the person from whom they obtained the product or to whom they sold it, or both, as applicable; and

  • (b) the prescribed documents.

• Marginal note:Period for keeping documents

  (2) The person shall keep the documents until the expiry of six years after the end of the year to which they relate or for any other period that may be prescribed.

• Marginal note:Keeping and providing documents in Canada

  (3) The person shall keep the documents at their place of business in Canada or at any prescribed place and shall, on written request, provide the Minister with them.

• Marginal note:Exemption — outside Canada

  (4) The Minister may, subject to any terms and conditions that he or she may specify, exempt a person from the requirement to keep documents in Canada if the Minister considers it unnecessary or impractical for the person to keep them in Canada.

• Marginal note:Importation

  (5) A person who imports a consumer product for commercial purposes shall, no later than at the time of the product’s importation, provide the Minister with those documents referred to in paragraph (1)(b) that are specified in the regulations.