Pest Control Products Act — P-9.01 67
Regulations — Governor in Council 67 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations (a) prescribing policies of the Government of Canada that are consistent with the objectives of this Act for the purposes of the definition government policy in section 2; (b) prescribing the nomenclature of pests and pest control products for the purposes of this Act; (c) respecting the information and other things that must accompany an application made under section 7 or 10; (d) respecting standards of laboratory practice to be used in conducting tests to obtain information about pest control products, certification of compliance with those standards, inspection and audit of compliance and the consequences of a failure to comply; (e) respecting the evaluation of the health or environmental risks or the value of pest control products; (f) respecting the registration of pest control products, including the types of registration for classes of products, and, for each type, (i) the criteria and characteristics, and (ii) the period or maximum period for which the registration is valid, which periods may be either finite or indefinite; (f.1) respecting minor uses of a pest control product and defining minor use for the purposes of this Act and the regulations; (g) stating which requirements of the regulations are conditions of registration; (h) respecting the circumstances and conditions under which information provided to the Minister by registrants may be used or relied upon in relation to applications or registrations of other persons, including distinctions among the rights of registrants based on the purposes for which the information was provided to the Minister; (i) respecting the Pest Control Products Export Control List, authorizations to export pest control products and the amendment, suspension and cancellation of authorizations; (j) respecting review panels, including their establishment, the selection and remuneration of panel members and the travel and living expenses to which they are entitled; (k) respecting authorizations to use unregistered pest control products for specific purposes and the amendment, suspension and cancellation of authorizations; (l) respecting the Register, including information that is to be included in the Register and public access to the information; (m) respecting the public disclosure of confidential test data; (n) prescribing information that is to be excluded in whole or in part from the application of subsection 43(5); (o) respecting the manufacture, possession, handling, storage, transport, import, export, distribution, use or disposition of pest control products; (p) prescribing standards for pest control products, including standards relating to their form and composition; (q) respecting the measures to be taken to facilitate the recognition of pest control products by a change in colouration or other means; (r) respecting the packaging, labelling and advertising of pest control products; (s) respecting pest control product safety information, including information related to product safety data sheets; (t) respecting the keeping of records by registrants, manufacturers, importers, exporters, distributors and users of pest control products in relation to the products that they manufacture, store, import, export, distribute, use or dispose of and the requirements for making those records available to the Minister; (u) respecting the recording by registrants of information on sales of pest control products, the retention and reporting to the Minister of such information by registrants and former registrants and the use of such information by the Minister; (v) respecting the taking of samples and the conduct of analyses for the purposes of this Act; (w) respecting the inspection and operation of establishments in which registered pest control products are manufactured; (x) respecting the preservation, detention and forfeiture of pest control products and any other things seized by an inspector; (y)