Pest Control Products Act

Marginal note:Unregistered pest control products

• 6 (1) No person shall manufacture, possess, handle, store, transport, import, distribute or use a pest control product that is not registered under this Act, except as otherwise authorized under subsection 21(5) or 41(1), section 48 or 51, any of sections 53 to 59 or the regulations.

• Marginal note:Conditions of registration

  (2) Except as otherwise authorized under section 53.3 or 54, no person shall manufacture, import, export or distribute a registered pest control product unless it conforms to the conditions of registration respecting its composition and the person complies with the other conditions of registration.

• Marginal note:Packaging and labelling

  (3) Except as otherwise authorized under section 53, 53.3 or 54, no person shall store, import, export or distribute a pest control product that is not packaged and labelled in accordance with the regulations and, if it is registered, the conditions of registration.

• (4) [Repealed, 2016, c. 9, s. 35]

• Marginal note:Misuse of pest control products

  (5) No person shall handle, store, transport, use or dispose of a pest control product in a way that is inconsistent with

  • (a) the regulations; or

  • (b) if the product is registered, the directions on the label recorded in the Register, subject to the regulations.

• (6) [Repealed, 2016, c. 9, s. 35]

• Marginal note:Packaging, labelling and advertisement

  (7) No person shall package, label or advertise a pest control product in a way that is false, misleading or likely to create an erroneous impression regarding its character, value, quantity, composition, safety or registration.

• Marginal note:Activities that endanger health, etc.

  (8) No person shall manufacture, possess, handle, store, transport, distribute, use or dispose of a pest control product in a way that endangers human health or safety or the environment.

• Marginal note:Alteration, destruction or falsification — required documents

  (8.1) No person shall alter, destroy or falsify a document that they are required under this Act to keep, maintain or provide.

• Marginal note:Alteration, possession or use — official documents

  (8.2) It is prohibited for a person to

  • (a) alter a document issued or made — or in any manner given — under this Act; or

  • (b) have in their possession, or use, a document issued or made — or in any manner given — under this Act that has been altered.

• Marginal note:Possession or use of documents that resemble official documents

  (8.3) It is prohibited for a person to have in their possession, or use, any document that has not been issued or made — or in any manner given — under this Act if the document so resembles a document issued or made — or in any manner given — under this Act that it is likely to be mistaken for such a document.

• Marginal note:Offence and punishment

  (9) A person who contravenes any provision of this section is guilty of an offence and liable

  • (a) on summary conviction, to a fine of not more than $200,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than six months, or to both; or

  • (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of not more than $500,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than three years, or to both.