Passenger Automobile and Light Truck Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations

Definition of fleet

• 8 (1) In subsection 10(2) and sections 13 to 40, fleet refers to

  • (a) all passenger automobiles or all light trucks of a specific model year that a company manufactures in Canada or imports into Canada for the purpose of sale of those vehicles to the first retail purchaser; or

  • (b) if a company makes an election under section 24, all passenger automobiles or all light trucks of a specific model year that a company manufactures in Canada or imports into Canada for the purpose of sale of those vehicles to the first retail purchaser that have not been included in the temporary optional fleet created under section 24 for that model year.

• Marginal note:Exclusions

  (2) Despite subsection (1), a company may, for the purposes of sections 13 to 40, elect to exclude from its fleets and its temporary optional fleets any of the following:

  • (a) the passenger automobiles or light trucks that it manufactures and that will be used in Canada solely for the purposes of exhibition, demonstration, evaluation or testing, if it reports its election to exclude those vehicles in its end of model year report;

  • (b) the passenger automobiles or light trucks that it imports into Canada solely for the purposes of exhibition, demonstration, evaluation or testing, if it makes a declaration in accordance with section 41 of the On-Road Vehicle and Engine Emission Regulations and reports its election to exclude those vehicles in its end of model year report.

• Marginal note:Fleets of the 2011 model year

  (3) A fleet of passenger automobiles or light trucks of the 2011 model year does not include vehicles that were manufactured before the coming into force of these Regulations, unless the company elects to include all of its passenger automobiles or light trucks of the 2011 model year in the fleet in question and reports that election in its end of model year report.

• Marginal note:Emergency vehicles of the 2011 model year

  (4) Despite subsection (1), a company may, for the purposes of sections 13 to 40, elect to exclude from its fleets of passenger automobiles and light trucks of the 2011 model year all emergency vehicles, if it reports that election in its end of model year report.