Passenger Automobile and Light Truck Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations

Marginal note:On-Road Vehicle and Engine Emission Regulations

• 9 (1) An emission control system that is installed in a vehicle to enable it to conform to the standards set out in these Regulations must be in conformity with subsection 11(1) of the On-Road Vehicle and Engine Emission Regulations.

• Marginal note:Defeat device

  (2) A vehicle must not be equipped with a defeat device.

• Marginal note:Test procedures

  (3) Subsections 11(3) and (4) of the On-Road Vehicle and Engine Emission Regulations apply, except that the test procedures in question are the ones set out in section 11.

• Marginal note:Exception — ambulance or fire fighting vehicle

  (4) Despite subsection (2), an ambulance or a fire fighting vehicle may be equipped with a defeat device if the device is one that is automatically activated during emergency response operations to maintain speed, torque or power in either of the following circumstances:

  • (a) the emission control system is in an abnormal state; or

  • (b) the device acts to maintain the emission control system in a normal state.