Tobacco and Vaping Products Act

Marginal note:Laying of proposed regulations

• 42.1 (1) The Governor in Council may not make a regulation under section 7, 14, 17, 33 or 42 unless the Minister has first laid the proposed regulation before the House of Commons.

• Marginal note:Report by committee

  (2) A proposed regulation that is laid before the House of Commons is deemed to be automatically referred to the appropriate committee of the House, as determined by the rules of the House, and the committee may conduct inquiries or public hearings with respect to the proposed regulation and report its findings to the House.

• Marginal note:Making of regulations

  (3) The Governor in Council may make a regulation under section 7, 14, 17, 33 or 42 only if

  • (a) the House of Commons has not concurred in any report from a committee respecting the proposed regulation within the thirty sitting days following the day on which the proposed regulation was laid before the House, in which case the regulation may only be made in the form laid; or

  • (b) the House of Commons has concurred in a report from a committee approving the proposed regulation or an amended version of it, in which case the Governor in Council may only make the regulation in the form concurred in.

• Definition of sitting day

  (4) For the purpose of this section, sitting day means a day on which the House of Commons sits.