Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

Marginal note:Prohibition

• 139 (1) No person shall produce, import or sell a fuel that does not meet the prescribed requirements.

• Marginal note:Exceptions

  (2) A person does not contravene subsection (1) if

  • (a) the fuel is in transit through Canada, from a place outside Canada to another place outside Canada, and there is written evidence establishing that the fuel is in transit;

  • (b) subject to the regulations, the fuel is produced or sold for export and there is written evidence establishing that the fuel will be exported;

  • (c) subject to the regulations, the fuel is being produced or imported and there is written evidence establishing that the fuel will meet the requirements of subsection (1) before the fuel is used or sold;

  • (d) subject to the regulations, the fuel is being imported in a fuel tank that supplies the engine of a conveyance that is used for transportation by water, land or air; or

  • (e) that person is exempted from the application of that subsection by a regulation made under subsection 140(3).