. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CAN/292 
12 January 2010  
 (10-0101) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English/ 
 French 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  CANADA   
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Department of Transport 
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 :  Canadian Enquiry 
Point, 200-270 Albert Street, Ottawa, Ontari o, Canada, K1P 6N7 Tel.:  +1 613 238 3222, 
Fax.: +1 613 569 7808, E-mail: enquirypoint@scc.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. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Motor Vehicles 
(ICS: 43.020, 43.040) 
5. Title, number of pages and langu age(s) of the notified document:  Regulations Amending 
the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (standard s 106, 108, 114, 122 and 217)  (19 pages, in 
English and French). 
6. Description of content:  This amendment introduces minor modifications to the Motor 
Vehicle Safety Regulations, here after referred to as the Regul ations, to clarify, update and 
correct the existing Regulations. Also, it re-enacts three sections of the Regulations to extend 
their application beyond their current expira tion dates. This ensures that the safety 
requirements contained in these sections will not cease to have  the force and effect of law 
before upcoming amendments to these safety standards.  
A modification to section 106, Brake Hoses, of  Schedule IV of the Regulations corrects the 
classes of vehicles to which th is safety standard applies. Se ction 106 applies to most classes 
of motor vehicles that are regulated under th e authority of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, 
including all motorcycle sub-classes (enclosed, open, limited-speed and motor tricycle), and 
not only to enclosed motorcycles, as was the cas e in the Regulations prior to this amendment. 
It also applies to trailers and trailer converte r dollies, but does not apply to low speed vehicles. 
It appears that the applicability was overl ooked and omitted when section 106 was last 
amended. These corrections to the applicabil ity of section 106 now make this section 
consistent with Schedule III of the Regulatio ns, which correctly indicates the classes of 
vehicle to which section 106 applies. 
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  In addition, the following sections, which curren tly expire January 1, 2010, are re-enacted by 
this amendment to the Regulations: 
• Section 108, Lighting System and Retror eflective Devices, of Schedule IV;  
• Subsections 114(1), 114(2) and 114(3) of se ction 114, Theft Protection and Rollaway 
 Prevention, of Schedule IV; and  
• Section 122, Motorcycle Brake Systems, of Schedule IV.  
This ensures that the safety re quirements contained in  these sections, through incorporation of 
technical standard documents, will not cease to  have the force and effect of law before the 
next substantive amendments planned to thes e sections are proposed and published. The new 
expiry date of these sec tions is January 1, 2015.  
Finally, this amendment updates the figures cont ained in section 217, Bus Window Retention, 
Release and Emergency Exits, of Schedule IV of  the Regulations with the most recent figures 
available. The update to the figures replaces imperial units with me tric units only, and 
improves the quality of the drawings. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human safety  
8. Relevant documents:   Canada Gazette, Part II, 23 December 2009, Pages 2580-2598  
(available in English and French)   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }23 December 2009   
10. Final date for comments:  Not applicable. 
This amendment to the Regulations is directly published in the Canada Gazette, Part II, in 
accordance with subsection 11(4) of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, as no substantive changes 
are made to the existing Regulations. 
11. Text available from: National enquiry po int [ X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
The electronic version of the regulator y text can be downloaded at:   
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp -pr/p2/2009/2009-12-23/pdf/g2-14326.pdf  (Canada Gazette) 
or  
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/ 2009/2009-12-23/html/sor-dors330-eng.html  (English)  
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/ 2009/2009-12-23/html/sor-dors330-fra.html  (French) 
The Technical Standards Documents 106, 108,  114, 122 and 217 can be downloaded from 
Transport Canada Website:  http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/acts- regulations/regulations-crc-
c1038.htm  (available in English and French).