Energy Efficiency Regulations, 2016

Marginal note:Value of CFL life

427 Despite paragraph 426(1)(c), the value that is displayed on the principal display panel for the life of a CFL may be

• (a) if the life testing of the CFL is completed, a value that is less than its life; or

• (b) if the life testing of the CFL is not completed, its design life, if a laboratory accredited in respect of the energy performance of lighting products by either the Standards Council of Canada or the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program, an A2LA certified laboratory or an ISO 9000 certified laboratory or manufacturing facility has, in accordance with IES LM65, verified 40% of the design life and at that point in the testing not more than one unit in the test sample has failed.