Marginal note:Representations accompanying products
74.03 (1) For the purposes of sections 74.01 and 74.02, a representation that is
(a) expressed on an article offered or displayed for sale or its wrapper or container,
(b) expressed on anything attached to, inserted in or accompanying an article offered or displayed for sale, its wrapper or container, or anything on which the article is mounted for display or sale,
(c) expressed on an in-store or other point-of-purchase display,
(d) made in the course of in-store, door-to-door or telephone selling to a person as ultimate user, or
(e) contained in or on anything that is sold, sent, delivered, transmitted or made available in any other manner to a member of the public,
is deemed to be made to the public by and only by the person who causes the representation to be so expressed, made or contained, subject to subsection (2).
Marginal note:Representations from outside Canada
(2) Where a person referred to in subsection (1) is outside Canada, a representation described in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c) or (e) is, for the purposes of sections 74.01 and 74.02, deemed to be made to the public by the person who imports into Canada the article, thing or display referred to in that paragraph.
Marginal note:Deemed representation to public
(3) Subject to subsection (1), a person who, for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, the supply or use of a product or any business interest, supplies to a wholesaler, retailer or other distributor of a product any material or thing that contains a representation of a nature referred to in section 74.01 is deemed to make that representation to the public.
- 1999, c. 2, s. 22
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