Prohibition of Asbestos and Products Containing Asbestos Regulations (SOR/2018-196)

Marginal note:Laboratory use

• 13 (1) A person may use the following in a laboratory in scientific research, for sample characterization or as an analytical standard and may import or sell it for such use:

  • (a) processed asbestos fibres;

  • (b) a product containing processed asbestos fibres; and

  • (c) a consumer product containing asbestos in greater than trace amounts.

• Marginal note:Asbestos management plan

  (2) A person who uses processed asbestos fibres referred to in paragraph (1)(a) in a laboratory in scientific research or as an analytical standard must prepare and implement an asbestos management plan that meets the requirements set out in Schedule 1.

• Marginal note:Report

  (3) A person must submit a report to the Minister that includes the elements referred to in subsection (5) before March 31 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which they

  • (a) imported processed asbestos fibres referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or a product referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) for use in a laboratory in scientific research or as an analytical standard if the import occurred after the coming into force of these Regulations; or

  • (b) used processed asbestos fibres referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or a product referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) in a laboratory in scientific research or as an analytical standard if those fibres or that product was imported after the coming into force of these Regulations.

• Marginal note:Previously reported asbestos

  (4) Subsection (3) does not apply in respect of processed asbestos fibres referred to in paragraph 1(a) or products referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) for which the elements set out in subsection (5) have been submitted to the Minister in a previous report by the same person.

• Marginal note:Contents of report

  (5) The report must include the following elements:

  • (a) the name, civic address in Canada and postal address of the laboratory or the importer, as the case may be;

  • (b) the name of the individual who is authorized to act for the laboratory or the importer and their title, civic address in Canada, postal address, telephone number and email address;

  • (c) if the person submitting the report is described in paragraph (3)(a)

    • (i) the forms and quantities of processed asbestos fibres that they imported in the calendar year to which the report relates and the unit of measurement used to describe those quantities, and

    • (ii) the name, description and number of the products referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) that they imported in the calendar year to which the report relates (by type of product), the estimated concentration and mass of asbestos in each product and the unit of measurement used to describe that concentration and mass; and

  • (d) if the person submitting the report is described in paragraph (3)(b)

    • (i) the forms and quantities of processed asbestos fibres that they used in the calendar year to which the report relates and the unit of measurement used to describe those quantities,

    • (ii) the name, description and number of the products referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) that were used in the calendar year to which the report relates(by type of product), the estimated concentration and mass of asbestos in each product and the unit of measurement used to describe that concentration and mass,

    • (iii) a statement indicating whether the processed asbestos fibres or the products referred to in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) were used in the calendar year to which the report relates in scientific research, as an analytical standard or both, and

    • (iv) if the person used processed asbestos fibres, a statement that an asbestos management plan that meets the requirements set out in Schedule 1 has been implemented.