G/TBT/N/CAN/535  
 
7 November 2017  
(17-6041) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English/French  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member: CANADA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: Department of Health  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Canada's Notification Authority and Enquiry Point  
Global Affairs Canada  
Technical Barriers and Regulations Division  
111 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON K1A 0G2  
Canada  
Telephone: (343) 203 -4273 
Fax: (613) 943 -0346 
E-mail: enquirypoint@international.gc.ca  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. I CS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Magnetic 
toys for children (may include Consumer Products (not including food, therapeutics or 
cosmetics)) (ICS: 97.020, 97.140, 97.190 and 97.200)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Regulations 
Amending the Toys Regulations (Magnetic Toys) (27 pages, in English and French)  
6. Description of content: The current Toys Regulations , made under the Canada 
Consumer Product Safety Act , would be amended to include the following two principal 
elements:  
1. A requirement that any magnetic toy or magnetic component that can be entirely 
enclosed in the small parts cylinder must have a magnetic flux index less than 
0.5 T2mm2 (50 kG2mm2). The small parts cylinder is illustrated in Schedule 1 of the 
Toys Regulations  and the small parts test incorporates the use of a force of not 
more than 4.45 N. The method to assess magnetic flux index is set out in a new 
Schedule of the Toys Regulations . 
2. A requirement stating that the above criteria must also be met after the magnetic 
toy or magnetic component is subjected to a standard series of integrity tests set 
out in a new Schedule of the Toys Regulations . The integrity tests include: a 
soaking tes t, an initial tension test for magnets, a drop test, a torque test, a 
tension test, an impact test for magnets, a compression test, and a final tension 
test for magnets.  
The proposed amendments establish two exceptions. The first is an exception for a mag net 
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  component, as long as the magnetic property is not part of the intended learning or play 
pattern for the toy. The second is an exception for magnets in toys that are advanced 
magnetic electrical experimental kits intended for children eight years of age or older, 
where the kit has a warning on its packaging and instructions regarding the danger of 
swallowing magnets.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: The objective of the proposed amendments to the Toys Regulations  is to set 
out specific requirements under the existing Regulations that will help to protect children 
from t he serious ingestion hazard posed by small powerful magnets in toys, consolidating 
the requirements with other Canadian safety requirements for toys.  
8. Relevant documents:  Canada Gazette , Part I, 4 November 2017, pages 4185 -4211 
(available in English and  French)    
9. Proposed date of adoption: Not stated.  
Proposed date of entry into force: The amended Toys Regulations would come into 
force on the day that, in the sixth month after the month in which they are published in 
the Canada Gazette, Part II, has the same calendar number as the day on which they are 
published or, if that sixth month has no day with that number, the last day of that sixth 
month.  
10. Final date for comments: 17 January 2018  
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:   
The electronic version of the regulatory text can be downloaded at:  
http://gazette.gc.ca/rp -pr/p1/2017/2017 -11-04/html/reg1 -eng.php  
http://gazette.gc.ca/rp -pr/p1/2017/2017 -11-04/html/reg1 -fra.php