Motor Vehicle Tire Safety Regulations

Marginal note:Authorization by Minister

• 7 (1) For the purposes of subsection 3(2) of the Act, on application by a company, the Minister may, in the form set out in Schedule 2, authorize the company to apply a national safety mark to a tire.

• Marginal note:Application of the national safety mark

  (2) For the purposes of subsection 3(2) of the Act, when a company applies the national safety mark to a tire, the company must

  • (a) reproduce the symbol set out in Schedule II to the Act with the minimum height specified in Figure 2 of Schedule 1; and

  • (b) permanently mould the symbol into or onto one sidewall of the tire

    • (i) in one of the places shown in Figure 2 of Schedule 1, and

    • (ii) at a depth or height of not less than 0.5 mm and not more than 1 mm as measured from the immediate surrounding surface of the sidewall.