Vaping Products Labelling and Packaging Regulations (SOR/2019-353)

Marginal note:Applicable standard

• 51 (1) A child-resistant container must

  • (a) be constructed so that it can be opened only by operating, puncturing or removing one of its functional and necessary parts using a tool that is not supplied with the container; or

  • (b) meet the child test protocol requirements of one of the following standards or a standard that is at least equivalent:

    • (i) the Canadian Standards Association Standard CAN/CSA Z76.1-16, entitled Reclosable child-resistant packages, as amended from time to time,

    • (ii) the International Organization for Standardization Standard ISO 8317:2015, entitled Child-resistant packaging — Requirements and testing procedures for reclosable packages, as amended from time to time, or

    • (iii) the United States Code of Federal Regulations, Title 16: Commercial Practices, section 1700.20, entitled “Testing procedure for special packaging”, as amended from time to time.

• Marginal note:Amended standard

  (2) Despite paragraph (1)(b), if a person has applied the child test protocol requirements of one of the standards referred to in that paragraph to a child-resistant container, as the standard read immediately before the day on which an amended version of that standard is published, the person may continue to apply those requirements to the child-resistant container during the period of 180 days after the day on which the amended standard is published.