Lighters Regulations (SOR/2016-187)

Marginal note:Requirement

• 4 (1) All lighters, other than luxury lighters, must be child resistant.

• Marginal note:Standard

  (2) For the purpose of subsection (1), a lighter is child resistant if its surrogate lighter has been tested in accordance with one of the following test protocols and at least 85% of the children who participated in the test were unable to cause the surrogate lighter to operate:

  • (a) in the case of a utility lighter, the test protocol described in section 1212.4, without regard to sections 1212.4(a)(3) and (b)(1), of the CFR; or

  • (b) in the case of all other lighters, the test protocol described in section 1210.4, without regard to sections 1210.4(a)(3) and (b)(1), of the CFR.