Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-38)

Marginal note:Prohibition respecting labels

• 4 (1) No dealer shall sell, import into Canada or advertise any prepackaged product unless that product has applied to it a label containing a declaration of net quantity of the product in the form and manner required by this Act or prescribed and in terms of either

  • (a) numerical count, or

  • (b) a unit of measurement set out in Schedule I to the Weights and Measures Act,

  as may be prescribed.

• Marginal note:Declaration of net quantity to be readily distinguishable

  (2) A declaration of net quantity referred to in subsection (1) shall be located on the principal display panel of the label and shall be clearly and prominently displayed, easily legible and in distinct contrast to any other information or representation shown on the label.