Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations

12.1 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 7(2)(a) of the Act, the prescribed requirements that a vehicle sold at the retail level in the United States or a prescribed vehicle from Mexico must meet are the following:

• (a) in the case of a vehicle sold at the retail level in the United States — other than a restricted-use motorcycle or a snowmobile — or a prescribed vehicle from Mexico, the vehicle conformed to the federal laws of the United States that were applicable on the date of manufacture, as indicated

  • (i) by the vehicle’s American compliance label, or

  • (ii) in a statement from the manufacturer of the vehicle or, if there is more than one manufacturer, from each manufacturer indicating that the vehicle conformed to the requirements of Parts 541, 565, 571 and 581, chapter V, Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations of the United States that were applicable on the date of manufacture;

• (b) in the case of a snowmobile sold at the retail level in the United States, it conformed to the standards published by the Snowmobile Safety and Certification Committee, Inc. that were applicable on the date of manufacture, as indicated

  • (i) on the Snowmobile Safety and Certification Committee, Inc. certification label,

  • (ii) in a statement from the manufacturer indicating that the snowmobile was certified by the Snowmobile Safety and Certification Committee, Inc., or

  • (iii) in a statement from the manufacturer indicating that the snowmobile conformed to the standards referred to in section 1201 of Schedule VI on the date of manufacture; and

• (c) in the case of a restricted-use motorcycle designed to travel on two or four wheels and sold at the retail level in the United States, it conformed to the requirements of sections 108 and 115 of Schedule IV on the date of manufacture.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph 7(2)(b) of the Act, the prescribed requirements that a vehicle sold at the retail level in the United States or a prescribed vehicle from Mexico must meet to be certified by the registrar of imported vehicles are the following:

• (a) any defect or non-compliance with respect to the vehicle’s design, construction or functioning that was the subject of a notice of defect or non-compliance was corrected;

• (b) the vehicle conforms to the requirements of subsections 101(4) and (6) and sections 102 and 108 of Schedule IV;

• (c) the vehicle conforms to the requirements of subsection 114(4) of Schedule IV or was fitted with an electronic immobilization system on the date of manufacture or is fitted with an immobilization system that conforms to the National Standard of Canada CAN/ULC-S338-98, entitled Automobile Theft Deterrent Equipment and Systems: Electronic Immobilization (May, 1998), published by the Underwriters’ Laboratories of Canada;

• (d) in the case of a vehicle equipped with a fuel system that uses LPG as a source of energy for its propulsion, it conforms to the requirements of section 301.1 of Schedule IV;

• (e) in the case of a vehicle equipped with a fuel system that uses CNG as a source of energy for its propulsion, it conforms to the requirements of section 301.2 of Schedule IV;

• (f) in the case of a school bus, it conforms to the requirements of section 111 of Schedule IV and, if applicable, section 301.1 or 301.2 of that Schedule;

• (g) in the case of a truck or multi-purpose passenger vehicle, it conforms to the requirements of section 111 of Schedule IV;

• (h) in the case of a trailer with a GVWR greater than 4 536 kg, it conforms to the requirements of section 905 of Schedule IV;

• (i) in the case of a low-speed vehicle, it conforms to the requirements of section 500 of Schedule IV;

• (j) in the case of a C-dolly, it conforms to the requirements of section 903 of Schedule IV; and

• (k) in the case of an enclosed motorcycle, motor tricycle, limited-speed motorcycle or three-wheeled vehicle, it conforms to the applicable requirements of Schedule IV.