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Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 520
Rear-facing mass-produced restraint system 520 A rear-facing mass-produced restraint system for disabled persons that is subjected to a dynamic test in accordance with section 4 of Test Method 213.3 must, when in any adjustment position for which there is no warning under subparagraph 521(1)(f)(ii), (a) retain the torso of the anthropomorphic test device within the restraint system, and not allow any portion of the target points on either side of the device’s head, located on the transverse axis passing through the centre of mass of the device’s head and perpendicular to the head’s midsagittal plane, to pass at any time, during or immediately after the test, either through the transverse orthogonal planes formed by the extension of the seat back frontal surface plane of the restraint system and by the plane that passes through the uppermost point of the restraint system, as shown in Figure 7 of Schedule 7, or through the vertical transverse plane passing through point X on the standard seat assembly, as shown in Figure 8 of Schedule 7; and (b) not allow the angle between the vertical and the back and head support surface, measured 240 mm above the seating surface, to be more than 70° at any time during the test.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 521
 equipped with a lower connector system, installed as recommended by the manufacturer in a seating position that is equipped with a lower universal anchorage system, and secured to the vehicle by means of the lower connector system and, if the restraint system is equipped with a tether strap and the manufacturer recommends its use, by means of the tether strap. Official languages and print size (2) The information referred to in subsection (1) must be in both official languages and in characters of at least 10 points, except for the words “year/année”, “month/mois” and “day/jour” under the date of manufacture, which may be in characters of at least 8 points. Visibility of information (3) The information referred to in paragraphs (1)(d) to (g) must be fully visible at all times, even when the restraint system is occupied.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 522
Warning — school buses 522 (1) Every custom restraint system for a disabled person that is designed to be used only in school buses must bear the school bus restraint system warning label shown in Schedule 6, and the label must conform to the requirements of that schedule. Idem (2) The label referred to in subsection (1) must be affixed in a permanent manner and be fully visible.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 523
Information — custom restraint systems 523 Every custom restraint system for a disabled person must be accompanied by a document, in both official languages, that contains the following information: (a) a statement that the restraint system must be used only by the person for whom the restraint system was designed; (b) the name and principal place of business of the company that manufactured, imported or sold the restraint system; (c) the date of manufacture of the restraint system, as shown in Schedule 5, with the year, month and day above the corresponding wording in both official languages; (d) except in the case of a custom restraint system for a disabled person that is designed to be used only in school buses, a statement that the restraint system conforms to the prescribed standards applicable on the date of manufacture; (e) a statement indicating whether the restraint system conforms to the inversion test requirements referred to in section 517; (f) if the restraint system is designed to be used with a tether strap, a statement that the tether strap must be properly attached to the vehicle and indicating how to attach the tether strap; (g) a warning indicating (i) if the restraint system is not designed to be used at certain adjustment positions or with trays or tables or certain webbing assemblies, that those adjustment positions, trays, tables or webbing assemblies must not be used, (ii) if the restraint system has a belt with a hook and loop fastener (for example, a Velcro-type fastener) that is designed to restrain a disabled person, that the fastener alone is not sufficient to restrain the disabled person, and that only belts that include buckles must be used to restrain the person, and (iii) if the restraint system is designed to restrain a disabled person by means of a fixed or movable surface and by means of belts, that the surface alone is not sufficient to restrain the person.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 524
Installation instructions 524 (1) Every mass-produced restraint system for disabled persons must be accompanied by printed instructions, in both official languages, that set out a step-by-step procedure, including diagrams, for (a) installing and securing the restraint system in a vehicle; (b) positioning a disabled person in the restraint system; and (c) adjusting every part of the restraint system that is designed to restrain the person. Idem (2) The instructions referred to in paragraph (1)(a) must state that the restraint system, even when unoccupied, must be firmly secured to the vehicle. Idem (3) The instructions must (a) specify the classes of vehicles, the seating positions and the types of vehicle seat belts with which the restraint system may or may not be used; (b) specify whether the restraint system may be used with a lower universal anchorage system; (c) explain the primary consequences of not following the warnings appearing on the restraint system; (d) if the restraint system conforms to the inversion test requirements of section 517, provide a step-by-step procedure, including diagrams, for installing the restraint system in an aircraft passenger seat referred to in subsection 2.1.2 of Test Method 213.3, for restraining a disabled person in the restraint system when it is installed in the seat, and for adjusting the restraint system to fit the person; and (e) if the restraint system conforms to the inversion test requirements of section 517 and is manufactured with a removable base, and the seating component of the restraint system is designed to be used in a vehicle with or without the base, specify whether the restraint system must be used with or without the base in an aircraft passenger seat. Storage of instructions (4) Every mass-produced restraint system for disabled persons must have a place for the storage of instructions.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 600
Interpretation 600 In this Part, Test Method 213.5 means Test Method 213.5 — Restraint Systems for Infants with Special Needs (May 2012), published by the Department of Transport. SOR/2013-117, s. 22
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Restraint system designed to face the rear 601 Every restraint system for infants with special needs must be designed to face the rear of the vehicle, except that a car bed must be designed to rest on the vehicle’s rear bench seat so that its longitudinal axis is perpendicular to the vertical longitudinal plane passing through the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 602
Torso restraint 602 Every restraint system for infants with special needs must, when the anthropomorphic test device is positioned in the restraint system in accordance with, in the case of a car bed, subsection 4.5.2 or 4.6.2 of Test Method 213.5 or, in the case of all other restraint systems for infants with special needs, subsection 4.5.3 or 4.6.3 of Test Method 213.5, (a) restrain the upper torso by means of belts passing over each shoulder; and (b) restrain the lower torso.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 603
Means of securing restraint system 603 (1) Subject to subsection (2), every restraint system for infants with special needs must be designed to be secured to a vehicle (a) by means of a vehicle seat belt in such a manner that the belt will not impose directly on the infant any loads that result from the mass of the restraint system, and without using any other means of attachment; and (b) if the restraint system is equipped with a lower connector system, by means of the lower connector system, without using any other means of attachment. Restraint system with tether strap (2) If a restraint system for infants with special needs is equipped with a tether strap and the manufacturer recommends its use, the restraint system must be designed to be secured to a vehicle (a) by means of the tether strap together with a vehicle seat belt in such a manner that the belt will not impose directly on the infant any loads that result from the mass of the restraint system, and without using any other means of attachment; and (b) if the restraint system is equipped with a lower connector system, by means of the tether strap together with the lower connector system, without using any other means of attachment.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 604
Restraint system with removable base 604 If a restraint system for infants with special needs is equipped with a lower connector system and is manufactured with a removable base, and the seating component of the restraint system is designed to be used in a vehicle with or without the base, the restraint system must be equipped with the lower connector system on the base.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 605
Car bed 605 Every car bed must (a) provide restraint against the sideways movement of the infant’s head towards the front of the vehicle by means of a head restraint; and (b) have, in the shell of the car bed, a means of minimizing, when the car bed is installed in a vehicle in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, any loads to the top of the infant’s head in case of a side impact.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 606
Restraint system to be adjustable 606 Every part of a restraint system for infants with special needs that is designed to restrain an infant must be adjustable to snugly fit an infant whose mass and height are within the ranges indicated in the statement referred to in paragraph 616(1)(d), when the infant is positioned in the restraint system in accordance with the instructions referred to in paragraph 618(1)(b) and the restraint system is adjusted in accordance with the instructions referred to in paragraph 618(1)(c).
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 607
Audible or visible indication 607 A restraint system for infants with special needs that is equipped with a lower connector system must provide a clear, audible indication when each connector in a lower connector system is securely attached to the lower universal anchorage system or a clear, visual indication that each connector is securely attached to the lower universal anchorage system.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 608
Flammability 608 Every restraint system for infants with special needs must be constructed only of materials that conform to the requirements of TSD 302. SOR/2013-117, s. 23
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 609
Conformity with TSD 209 609 Every belt buckle and related piece of adjustment hardware and every tether strap attachment and related piece of adjustment hardware that are part of a restraint system for infants with special needs must conform to the requirements of S4.3(a)(2) and (b) of TSD 209.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 610
Belt buckles 610 Every belt buckle that is fitted on a belt designed to restrain an infant in a restraint system for infants with special needs must (a) under the conditions set out in section 3 of Test Method 213.5, (i) not release when any force of less than 40 N is applied, and (ii) release when a force of at least 40 N but not more than 62 N is applied; (b) under the conditions set out in section 5 of Test Method 213.5, release when a force of not more than 71 N is applied; (c) conform to the requirements of S4.3(d)(2) of TSD 209, except that the surface area of a belt buckle designed for push-button application must be at least 385 mm 2 ; (d) conform to the requirements of S4.3(g) of TSD 209; and (e) not release during the dynamic tests specified in section 4 of Test Method 213.5. SOR/2013-117, s. 24
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 611
Webbing 611 Any webbing that is designed to secure a restraint system for infants with special needs to a user-ready tether anchorage or to a lower universal anchorage system, or to restrain an infant with special needs within the restraint system, must (a) when tested in accordance with S5.1(b) of TSD 209, before being tested for resistance to abrasion as specified in S5.1(d) or S5.3(c) of TSD 209, for resistance to light as specified in S5.1(e) of TSD 209 or for resistance to micro-organisms as specified in S5.1(f) of TSD 209, have a breaking strength of (i) at least 15 000 N, in the case of webbing designed to secure the restraint system to the user-ready tether anchorage or to the lower universal anchorage system, or (ii) at least 11 000 N, in the case of webbing designed to restrain an infant with special needs within the restraint system; (b) when tested in accordance with S5.1(b) of TSD 209, after being tested for resistance to abrasion as specified in S5.1(d) or S5.3(c) of TSD 209, have a breaking strength of at least 75% of its initial breaking strength; (c) conform to the requirements respecting breaking strength set out in S4.2(e) and (f) of TSD 209; and (d) if contactable by the torso when the restraint system is tested in accordance with section 4 of Test Method 213.5, have a width of not less than 38 mm, measured as specified in S5.1(a) of TSD 209. SOR/2013-117, s. 21
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 612
Contactable surfaces 612 (1) Every restraint system for infants with special needs, other than a car bed must provide (a) for the support of the infant’s back, a continuous surface that is flat or concave and has an area of not less than 54 800 mm 2 ; and (b) for the support of the sides of the infant’s torso, continuous surfaces that are flat or concave and have an area of not less than 30 500 mm 2 each. Contactable surfaces — car bed (2) Every car bed must provide (a) for the support of the infant’s back and legs, a continuous surface that is flat or concave and has an area of not less than 71 250 mm 2 ; and (b) for the support of the sides of the infant’s torso and legs, continuous surfaces that are flat or concave and have an area of not less than 39 650 mm 2 each.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 613
Rigid structural elements 613 Any rigid structural element underlying a contactable surface of a restraint system for infants with special needs must not have (a) a protrusion, with any padding or flexible overlay material removed, of more than 9.5 mm; or (b) an exposed edge with a radius of less than 6.4 mm.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 614
Surface contactable by head 614 Every surface of a restraint system for infants with special needs that is contactable by the head of an anthropomorphic test device positioned in the restraint system in accordance with, in the case of a car bed, subsection 4.5.2 or 4.6.2 of Test Method 213.5 or, in the case of all other restraint systems for infants with special needs, subsection 4.5.3 or 4.6.3 of Test Method 213.5 must be covered with slow-recovery, energy-absorbing material that, when tested in accordance with section 6 of Test Method 213.5, has (a) a resistance of not less than 4 kPa but not more than 70 kPa at 25% of compression-deflection resistance; (b) a thickness of not less than 12 mm, if the material has a resistance of not less than 12 kPa but not more than 70 kPa at 25% of compression-deflection resistance; and (c) a thickness of not less than 19 mm, if the material has a resistance of not less than 4 kPa but less than 12 kPa at 25% of compression-deflection resistance.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 615
o in paragraph (3)(a) must be measured in a plane parallel to the surface of the seat back of the restraint system for infants with special needs and orthogonal to the vertical longitudinal plane passing through the longitudinal centreline of the restraint system, from the lowest point of the restraint system’s seating surface that is contacted by the buttocks of the seated anthropomorphic test device. Exception (5) Despite paragraph (3)(b), if the restraint system for infants with special needs provides surfaces for the support of the sides of the torso, and those surfaces extend at least 100 mm forward from the padded surface of the portion of the restraint system provided for the support of the head of the anthropomorphic test device, the restraint system may have a continuous seat back width of not less than 150 mm, measured in the horizontal plane at the height specified in paragraph (3)(a). Restraint system with means of automatic repositioning (6) If a restraint system for infants with special needs that has a means of automatically repositioning the seating surface is subjected, in any adjustment position, to a dynamic test in accordance with section 4 of Test Method 213.5, an opening that is exposed and larger than 6.4 mm before the test must not become smaller during the test as a result of the movement of the seating surface relative to the other parts of the restraint system.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 617
Warning — air bag 617 (1) Every restraint system for infants with special needs must bear the air bag warning label shown in Schedule 6, and the label must conform to the requirements of that schedule. Idem (2) The label referred to in subsection (1) must be affixed in a permanent manner at either of the following locations and be fully visible to a person installing the restraint system: (a) on the side of the restraint system that will face the right front passenger door when the restraint system is facing rearward; or (b) at the location where the infant’s head would rest or adjacent to that location.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 618
Installation instructions 618 (1) Every restraint system for infants with special needs must be accompanied by printed instructions, in both official languages, that set out a step-by-step procedure, including diagrams, for (a) installing and securing the restraint system in a vehicle; (b) positioning an infant with special needs in the restraint system; and (c) adjusting every part of the restraint system that is designed to restrain the infant. Idem (2) The instructions referred to in paragraph (1)(a) must state that the restraint system, even when unoccupied, must be firmly secured to the vehicle. Idem (3) The instructions must (a) specify the classes of vehicles, the seating positions and the types of vehicle seat belts with which the restraint system may or may not be used; (b) specify whether the restraint system may be used with a lower universal anchorage system; (c) if the restraint system has a means of automatically repositioning the seating surface, specify that the ability of the restraint system to change position must not be impeded; and (d) explain the primary consequences of not following the warnings appearing on the restraint system. Storage of instructions (4) Every restraint system for infants with special needs must have a place for the storage of instructions.
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 700
Conformity 700 Until December 31, 2011, the restraint systems and booster seats referred to in these Regulations may, instead of conforming to the requirements of these Regulations, conform to the requirements of the Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Cushions Safety Regulations as they read on the day before the day on which these Regulations came into force and as they were modified in their application by the Order Modifying the Operation of the Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Cushions Safety Regulations and the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations , which came into effect on May 1, 2009 and was published in the Canada Gazette , Part I, on May 9, 2009. SOR/2010-279, s. 1, err., Vol. 144, No. 26
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — Publication
Publication * 702 These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are published in the Canada Gazette , Part II. * [Note: Regulations in force May 12, 2010.]
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Under the Motor Vehicle Safety Act and the Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations , [company name and address] is authorized to apply the national safety mark to any restraint system or booster seat of a prescribed class referred to in section 102 of the Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations , on the condition that the restraint system or booster seat conforms to all of the applicable Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
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is authorized to apply the national safety mark to any restraint system or booster seat of a prescribed class referred to in section 102 of the Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations , on the condition that the restraint system or booster seat conforms to all of the applicable Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
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The national safety mark must be applied at the following premises: [address of the premises]
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This ministerial authorization (number ) expires on
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Note: Replace XXXX with one or more of the following numbers, as applicable: 213, 213.1, 213.2, 213.3 and 213.5.
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Replace YYY with the authorization number assigned by the Minister.
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1 The message area containing the warning statement must be at least 30 cm 2
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2 The warning statement must be in characters of at least 10 points
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 3
3 The pictogram must be at least 30 mm in diameter
Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Seats Safety Regulations — 1
1 Dimensions in mm, except where otherwise indicated
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3 Lap belt anchorage points and continuous-loop lap and shoulder belt lower anchorage points are symmetrically located with respect to the SORL
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2 Transverse horizontal distance between the centre of the bars and the vertical plane containing the SORL is 140 mm
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3 User-ready tether anchorage point on rear package shelf located on the vertical longitudinal plane containing the SORL or located 544 mm right or left of the vertical longitudinal plane containing the SORL