Human Pathogens and Toxins Act

Marginal note:Externally produced documents

• 68 (1) A regulation may incorporate by reference documents that are produced by a person or body other than the Minister, including

  • (a) an organization established for the purpose of writing standards, including an organization accredited by the Standards Council of Canada;

  • (b) an industrial or trade organization; or

  • (c) a government.

• Marginal note:Reproduced or translated documents

  (2) A regulation may incorporate by reference documents that the Minister reproduces or translates from documents that are produced by a person or body other than the Minister

  • (a) with any adaptations of form or reference that would facilitate the incorporation of those documents into the regulation; or

  • (b) in a form that sets out only those parts that apply for the purposes of the regulation.

• Marginal note:Jointly produced documents

  (3) A regulation may incorporate by reference documents that the Minister produces jointly with another government for the purpose of harmonizing the regulation with other laws.

• Marginal note:Internally produced standards

  (4) A regulation may incorporate by reference technical or explanatory documents that the Minister produces, including

  • (a) specifications, classifications, illustrations, graphs or other information of a technical nature; and

  • (b) test methods, procedures, operational standards, laboratory safety standards or performance standards of a technical nature.

• Marginal note:Ambulatory incorporation by reference

  (5) A document may be incorporated by reference as amended from time to time.

• Marginal note:Incorporated document not a regulation

  (6) A document that is incorporated by reference in a regulation is not a regulation for the purposes of the Statutory Instruments Act.

• Marginal note:Interpretation

  (7) Subsections (1) to (5) do not limit any authority to make regulations incorporating documents by reference that exists apart from those subsections.