The Government of Canada has been busy making changes to a
number of regulations relating to consumer products.
Government of Canada updates HPA regulations to align
with CCPSA
The Government of Canada recently published a series of new regulations
under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) to
align regulations made under the old Hazardous Products Act
(HPA) with the new legislative regime. The CCPSA
replaced the HPA in 2011.
The new regulations are not intended to make substantive changes
to the existing HPA regulations. Instead, the changes are
intended to update the regulations to accord with current drafting
practices, correct inconsistencies between the English and French
versions of the regulations, incorporate references to the most
recent reaffirmed standards where static standards are incorporated
by reference into the regulations, and remove references to the
HPA and align the scope of the regulations with the
CCPSA. This includes
