Children’s clothing regulations by market

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  US Crib Mattress Safety 16 CFR Part 1241 US

  Crib mattresses within the scope of ASTM F2933 — full-size, non-full-size and after-market — must comply with all applicable provisions of ASTM F2933-21, which this part incorporates by reference.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The substantive requirements are in the ASTM specification rather than in the CFR text, and the part names the exact approved edition. The record carries the general duty the part imposes. It does not enumerate the individual disclosures, exemptions and test conditions, which run to dozens of sections in the part itself.

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  US Children's Sleepwear 7-14 16 CFR Part 1616 US

  All sleepwear items defined in § 1616.2(c) — children's sleepwear in sizes 7 through 14, and fabric or related material intended or promoted for use in it — are subject to this Standard. When tested under §§ 1616.4 and 1616.5, the average char length of five specimens must not exceed 17.8 cm (7.0 in), and no individual specimen may have a char length of 25.4 ± 0.5 cm (10 ± 0.2 in).

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The full-specimen limit carries a tolerance here — 25.4 ± 0.5 cm — where the 0-6X standard states 25.4 cm flat. Quoted as written in each Part rather than harmonised between them. The pass criteria are measured on five specimens: an average char length not exceeding 17.8 cm (7.0 in), and no individual specimen reaching the full-specimen limit.

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  US Children's Sleepwear 7-14 16 CFR Part 1616 US

  Children's sleepwear items meeting all the requirements of the Standard for the Flammability of Children's Sleepwear: Sizes 0 through 6X (FF 3-71), 16 CFR part 1615 subpart A, are in compliance with this Standard.

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  The relationship runs ONE WAY. A 1615 pass satisfies 1616; nothing states the converse, so a 1616 pass does not carry down to the smaller sizes. That asymmetry decides which test a manufacturer runs when one product spans the size break, and reading either Part alone conceals it.

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  US Children's Sleepwear 0-6X 16 CFR Part 1615 US

  All items defined in § 1615.1(d) — children's sleepwear in sizes 0 through 6X, and fabric or related material intended or promoted for use in it — are subject to this Standard. When tested under § 1615.4, the average char length of five specimens must not exceed 17.8 cm (7.0 in), and no individual specimen may have a char length of 25.4 cm (10 in).

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The Standard reaches the FABRIC as well as the finished garment, where the material is intended or promoted for sleepwear use — so a mill selling into that end use is inside it. The pass criteria are measured on five specimens: an average char length not exceeding 17.8 cm (7.0 in), and no individual specimen reaching the full-specimen limit.

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  US Children's Sleepwear 0-6X 16 CFR Part 1615 US

  The flammability standards for clothing textiles and vinyl plastic film — 16 CFR parts 1610 and 1611 — are superseded by this part insofar as they apply to items defined in § 1615.1(d).

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  Recorded because reading this register's 16 CFR 1610 record alongside this one would otherwise suggest two tests where the regulation says one. For an item inside 1615 the general Class 1/2/3 clothing standard steps aside; it does not apply in addition.

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  Canada Toys Regulations SOR/2011-17 CA

  The outer covering of a doll, plush toy or soft toy that is made of flat or raised fibre textile material or natural fur must, when tested in accordance with Schedule 5, have a flame spread time greater than seven seconds.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This is the test the Textile Flammability Regulations hand off to: that instrument excludes dolls and soft toys, and this is where they go. The criterion is a flame spread TIME with a floor, not a flame spread rate with a ceiling, so a result from the apparel test does not answer this question and neither does the reverse. The obligation is on the finished toy, so a mill supplying covering fabric, pile fabric or filling into that trade is answerable through its customer rather than directly.

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  Canada Toys Regulations SOR/2011-17 CA

  Where the exposed pile length is 51 mm or more and the covering is too small to yield a specimen for the Schedule 5 test, the covering must instead not ignite on a one-second impingement of the calibrated flame, or must self-extinguish within two seconds of the flame being removed, after being laundered where a flame-retarding finish is known or indicated by preliminary testing and then oven dried.

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  A substitute test rather than an exemption, and the laundering step inside it is the part with commercial consequences: a flame-retarding finish is washed before the flame is applied, so a finish that does not survive laundering does not survive this test. Section 32(2) covers the mirror case - pile under 51 mm on an article too small to test - and grants a true exemption rather than a substitute.

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  Canada Toys Regulations SOR/2011-17 CA

  Material used as stuffing in a doll, plush toy or soft toy must be clean and free from vermin, must be free of hard or sharp foreign matter, must not exceed the toxicity limits in Schedule 2, and must not be irritant when assessed in accordance with Schedule 3.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Four separate requirements on one material, and only two of them are laboratory questions. Clean and free from vermin, and free of hard or sharp foreign matter, are conditions on the fibre stream itself - which puts recycled and reclaimed filling under a scrutiny that virgin fibre does not attract, and puts the answer in the opening line rather than in the test house.

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  Canada Toys Regulations SOR/2011-17 CA

  An eye or nose, other than one made entirely of felt or another soft textile material, that measures 32 mm or less in its greatest dimension and is attached to a doll, plush toy or soft toy, must either not be capable of being gripped by the three-pronged claw hook illustrated in Schedule 4, or must not detach when tested in accordance with that Schedule.

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  The carve-out is the useful half: an eye or nose made entirely of felt or another soft textile material is outside this section altogether, which is why embroidered and felt features appear on toys for the youngest ages. The two limbs are alternatives - an attachment that the hook cannot grip need not also survive the pull.

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  Canada Tents Regulations SOR/2024-217 CA

  A tent must meet the labelling requirements set out in section 6 of CAN/CGSB-182.1-2020. For that purpose a children's tent means a tent intended to be used by a child under 14 years of age that is not intended to be used with a cooking or heating device, and an appliance means a cooking or heating device.

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  The two definitions are supplied by the Regulations rather than by the standard, so a reader working from the standard alone has them wrong. Note what makes a tent a children's tent: age plus the absence of any intention that it be used with a cooking or heating device. A tent for children that is sold for use with a stove is not a children's tent under this section.

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  Canada Playpens SOR/2018-186 CA

  Any part of a playpen or accessory that is made of a textile or other pliable material and is permanently affixed to a rigid structural component must not tear, or become detached from that component, when tested in accordance with Schedule 1.

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  The duty is on the attachment as much as on the cloth: a panel that holds but pulls away from its frame fails this section exactly as a panel that tears does. Schedule 1 is the named method.

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  Canada Playpens SOR/2018-186 CA

  Any mesh made of a textile or other pliable material forming part of a playpen or accessory must not tear or become detached when tested in accordance with Schedule 2.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Separate from section 6 because it reaches mesh whether or not the mesh is permanently affixed to a rigid component, and it carries its own test schedule.

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  Canada Playpens SOR/2018-186 CA

  The openings in mesh made of a textile or other pliable material forming part of a playpen or accessory must be sized so that the hemispherical tip of the probe described in Schedule 3 cannot pass through them when tested in accordance with that schedule.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  A construction specification rather than a performance one: it is decided at the knit or weave, so it is a duty the fabric supplier can fail before the playpen exists. The pass condition is the probe failing to pass, not a stated aperture in millimetres — the regulation defines the limit by the instrument.

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  Canada Playpens SOR/2018-186 CA

  Any part of a playpen or accessory made of a textile or other pliable material must have a flame spread time greater than seven seconds when tested in accordance with CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.5, Textile Test Methods: Flame Resistance — 45° Angle Test — One-Second Flame Impingement, as amended from time to time. The requirement applies where the material either has no raised fibre surface, or has a raised fibre surface and exhibits ignition or fusion of its base fibres when tested.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The two limbs are not alternatives a supplier may choose between: a plain surface is tested outright, while a raised-fibre surface is caught only once it ignites or its base fibres fuse. Reading limb (b) as an exemption for pile fabrics is the error this wording invites. The test method is incorporated by reference "as amended from time to time", so the duty follows the current edition of CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.5 rather than the edition in force when the regulation was made. That standard is not linkable from this register: CGSB publishes no per-standard page that answers — scc.ca returns 404 to its own search and publications.gc.ca returns 404 and disallows its search paths — so the citation is recorded without a resolving URL rather than pointed at a plausible one.

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  Canada Phthalates Regulations SOR/2016-188 CA

  The vinyl in a toy or child care article must not contain more than 1,000 mg/kg of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP) or benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), when tested by a method conforming to good laboratory practices.

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  This limit reaches all the vinyl in the article, not only the parts a child might mouth - which is what separates it from section 3. What counts as vinyl is not defined anywhere in these Regulations, so whether a plastisol print or a PVC-coated face fabric falls inside it is a question the text leaves open. The Regulations define a toy as a product intended for use by a child under 14 years of age in learning or play, and a child care article as a product intended to facilitate the relaxation, sleep, hygiene, feeding, sucking or teething of a child under four - which reaches bibs, changing mats and cot articles that are textile products before they are anything else.

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  Canada Phthalates Regulations SOR/2016-188 CA

  The vinyl in any part of a toy or child care article that can, in a reasonably foreseeable manner, be placed in the mouth of a child under four years of age must not contain more than 1,000 mg/kg of diisononyl phthalate (DINP), diisodecyl phthalate (DIDP) or di-n-octyl phthalate (DNOP), when tested by a method conforming to good laboratory practices.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  A different list of three phthalates against a narrower scope, at the same numerical limit. Testing a component against the section 2 list when section 3 governs it, or the reverse, is the wrong test rather than a conservative one: the two lists share no substance.

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  Canada Phthalates Regulations SOR/2016-188 CA

  A part can be placed in the mouth of a child under four years of age, for the purpose of the DINP, DIDP and DNOP limit, if it can be brought to the child's mouth and kept there so that it can be sucked or chewed, and one of its dimensions is less than 5 cm. Where the part is inflatable, its dimensions are determined in its deflated state.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  A mechanical test rather than a judgement about how a child plays, and both limbs must be satisfied - a part that can be sucked but has no dimension under 5 cm is outside the section. The deflated-state rule matters to inflatable and padded articles whose dimensions in use would put them outside it.

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  Canada Expansion Gates SOR/2016-179 CA

  Any part of an expansion gate or an expandable enclosure that is made of a textile fibre must have a flame spread time greater than seven seconds when tested in accordance with the Canadian General Standards Board standard CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.5, Textile Test Methods: Flame Resistance — 45° Angle Test — One-Second Flame Impingement, as amended from time to time, where it either has no raised fibre surface, or has a raised fibre surface and exhibits ignition or fusion of its base fibres.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  SEVEN seconds — the same figure SOR/2016-194 sets for bedding and double the 3.5 seconds it sets for general textiles. A general-textile pass carried onto a gate panel is short by a factor of two. Note also the wording: this reaches a part made of a TEXTILE FIBRE, where the playpen, crib and general rules reach a part made of "a textile or other pliable material" — narrower on its face, and a coated or plastic-sheet panel may sit outside it. Quoted as written rather than harmonised with its neighbours. The method is incorporated as amended from time to time, so the duty follows the current edition; CGSB publishes no per-standard page that resolves, so it cannot be linked from here.

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  Canada Expansion Gates SOR/2016-179 CA

  Information appearing on an expansion gate or expandable enclosure, accompanying one, or in any advertisement for one, must not make any direct or indirect reference to the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act or to these Regulations.

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  The mirror of 16 CFR § 1608.6 in this register, and the constructions differ in a way worth seeing side by side: the US rule bars suggesting that the Act or the Government GUARANTEES conformity, while this bars the reference outright — direct or indirect, on the product, with it, or in advertising. A line reading "meets SOR/2016-179" is lawful marketing in neither country, but only Canada forbids naming the instrument at all.

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  Canada Expansion Gates SOR/2016-179 CA

  Every expansion gate and expandable enclosure must carry, indelibly printed on it or permanently affixed to it, a prescribed warning in English and French — or visual images conveying the same meaning — clearly and prominently displayed and contrasting sharply with the background by colour, projection or indentation. The headings "WARNING" and "MISE EN GARDE" must be upper-case block letters at least 5 mm high, and the body text at least 2.5 mm. The packaging in which the product is sold must carry the same information, clearly and prominently displayed.

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  Bilingual and dimensioned: 5 mm headings, 2.5 mm text, both languages, permanent. For a fabric-panelled product that constrains the label construction, not just its wording — an indelible print or permanent affixation on textile has to survive the life of the product. The duty is repeated on the PACKAGING, so a compliant product in a silent carton still fails.

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  Canada Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets SOR/2016-152 CA

  When a crib is tested under Schedule 2, there must be no completely bounded opening through which a solid rectangular block of 60 mm × 100 mm × 100 mm can pass in any orientation. Which procedure applies depends on the side: section 1 of that Schedule for a crib with a rigid side, and section 2 for a crib with a side made of a textile or other pliable material.

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  The limit is the same for both constructions; the test is not. Reading the block dimension and stopping is the error here — a textile-sided crib is assessed under Schedule 2 section 2, and a rigid-sided one under section 1.

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  Canada Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets SOR/2016-152 CA

  When a cradle, bassinet or sleep accessory is tested under Schedule 2, there must be no completely bounded opening through which a solid rectangular block of 60 mm × 100 mm × 100 mm can pass in any orientation — under section 3 of that Schedule where the product has a rigid side, and section 4 where it has a side made of a textile or other pliable material.

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  Recorded separately from 10(1) because it reaches different products under two further Schedule 2 procedures. Four test sections across the two subsections, and which one applies is decided by the product AND by whether the side is cloth.

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  Canada Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets SOR/2016-152 CA

  Any mesh made of a textile or other pliable material forming part of the sides or bottom of a crib, cradle, bassinet or accessory must not tear, or become detached from its supporting structure or anything it is attached to, when tested in accordance with Schedule 3.

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  Wider than the equivalent duty in the Playpens Regulations (SOR/2018-186 s.7(1)): this one names the bottom as well as the sides, and names detachment from "anything to which it is attached" rather than from a supporting structure alone.

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  Canada Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets SOR/2016-152 CA

  The openings in mesh made of a textile or other pliable material forming part of the sides or bottom of a crib, cradle, bassinet or accessory must be sized so that the hemispherical tip of the probe described in Schedule 4 cannot pass through them when tested in accordance with that Schedule.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Decided at the knit or weave, so it is a duty a fabric supplier can fail before the finished product exists. As in the playpen rule, the limit is defined by the instrument rather than by a stated aperture in millimetres.

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  Canada Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets SOR/2016-152 CA

  Any part of a crib, cradle, bassinet, accessory or stand made of a textile or any other pliable material must have a flame spread time greater than seven seconds when tested in accordance with CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.5, Textile Test Methods: Flame Resistance — 45° Angle Test — One-Second Flame Impingement, as amended from time to time. It applies where the material either has no raised fibre surface, or has a raised fibre surface and exhibits ignition or fusion of its base fibres when tested.

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  Word-for-word the same duty as section 8 of the Playpens Regulations, and it carries the same trap: the two limbs are not a choice. A plain surface is tested outright; a raised-fibre surface is caught only once it ignites or its base fibres fuse. Reading limb (b) as an exemption for pile fabrics is the error the wording invites. This section also reaches the STAND, which the playpen rule does not. Incorporated "as amended from time to time", so the duty follows the current edition of CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.5 rather than the edition in force when the regulation was made. That standard cannot be linked from this register: CGSB publishes no per-standard page that resolves — scc.ca returns 404 to its own search and publications.gc.ca returns 404 and disallows its search paths — so the citation is recorded without a URL rather than pointed at a plausible one.

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  Canada Lead in Consumer Products SOR/2018-83 CA

  Each accessible part of a consumer product containing lead must not contain more than 90 mg/kg of lead when tested in accordance with good laboratory practices. Clothing and clothing accessories intended for use by a child under 14 years of age are within the definition of such a product, so the limit reaches every part of a children's garment that may be touched, licked, mouthed or swallowed in reasonably foreseeable use.

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  The limit is a CONTENT limit, not a migration limit, and it applies part by part rather than to the garment as a whole. In practice that puts it on trims, fasteners, zips, prints and appliqué rather than on the cloth. "Accessible part" is defined by what may be touched, licked, mouthed or swallowed during reasonably foreseeable use, which for childrenswear is a wide reading. Nothing in the regulation's title or operative text says textile: it reaches childrenswear only through the definition.

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  Canada Lead in Consumer Products SOR/2018-83 CA

  An accessible part may exceed 90 mg/kg of lead only where all three conditions are met: lead is necessary to produce an essential characteristic of the part; no alternative part containing less lead is available; and the part, tested in accordance with good laboratory practices, does not release more than 90 mg/kg of lead.

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  The three conditions are cumulative, not alternatives — the section joins (a) and (b) to (c) with "and". This is where the rule switches from content to RELEASE: a part relying on the exception is measured on what it gives up, not on what it holds. A supplier claiming the exception is asserting all three, including that no lower-lead alternative part exists, which is a sourcing claim rather than a test result and is the limb least likely to be evidenced.

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  Canada CCPSA S.C. 2010, c. 21 CA

  No person may manufacture, import, advertise or sell a consumer product that does not meet the requirements set out in the regulations made under the Act.

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  This is the section that makes the Textile Flammability Regulations and the Children's Sleepwear Regulations enforceable rather than advisory; both are made under this Act and both are already in this register. The Act is horizontal and reaches consumer products generally; it is recorded here for the textile articles that fall within it.

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  Canada CCPSA S.C. 2010, c. 21 CA

  No manufacturer or importer may manufacture, import, advertise or sell a consumer product that is a danger to human health or safety, that is the subject of a recall order or a voluntary recall in Canada made because the product is such a danger, or that is the subject of a required measure they have not carried out.

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  Section 8 places a parallel prohibition on any person who advertises or sells such a product and who knows of the danger, recall or outstanding measure, so the knowledge qualifier separates the two sections rather than the conduct. Section 5 separately prohibits any product listed in Schedule 2 outright. The Act is horizontal and reaches consumer products generally; it is recorded here for the textile articles that fall within it.

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  Canada CCPSA S.C. 2010, c. 21 CA

  A person who manufactures, imports or sells a consumer product for commercial purposes must give the Minister, and the person from whom they received the product, all the information in their control about an incident related to it within two days of becoming aware of the incident. The manufacturer, or the importer where the manufacturer carries on business outside Canada, must then give the Minister a written report within ten days, covering the incident, the product, any other product of theirs that could be involved in a similar incident, and the measures they propose.

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  Incident is defined at subsection (1) and is wider than an injury: it covers an occurrence in Canada or elsewhere that resulted or might reasonably have been expected to result in death or serious adverse health effects, a defect or characteristic that might reasonably be expected to do so, and incorrect, insufficient or absent labelling or instructions that might reasonably be expected to do so. A label defect is an incident under this Act. The ten-day period may be replaced by a period the Minister specifies in writing. The Act is horizontal and reaches consumer products generally; it is recorded here for the textile articles that fall within it.

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  Canada Children's Sleepwear SOR/2016-169 CA

  Tight-fitting children's sleepwear, tested to CGSB standard CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.5 (45° angle test, one-second flame impingement), must have a flame spread time of more than seven seconds.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The regulations distinguish tight-fitting from loose-fitting sleepwear and set a different test for each, which is the distinction a supplier has to get right before choosing a fabric. The record carries the general duty the instrument imposes. It does not enumerate the exemptions, schedules and test conditions, which are in the instrument itself.

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  Canada Children's Sleepwear SOR/2016-169 CA

  Loose-fitting children's sleepwear, tested in accordance with Schedule 1, must have an average char length across five specimens not exceeding 178 mm, with no more than one specimen charred over its full length.

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  Canada Children's Sleepwear SOR/2016-169 CA

  Loose-fitting children's sleepwear treated with a flame retardant must carry a permanently affixed label displaying the words "flame retardant" and "ignifugeant" clearly and legibly, with care instructions in English and French.

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  Both languages are required on the label, not either one.

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  AU ACL Act No. 51 of 1974 (Cth), Schedule 2 AU

  A person must not, in trade or commerce, supply consumer goods of a particular kind where a safety standard for goods of that kind is in force and those goods do not comply with it. A pecuniary penalty may be imposed for a contravention.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This is the section that makes the three recorded Consumer Goods standards enforceable rather than descriptive; all three are safety standards made under section 104 and all three are already in this register. The Australian Consumer Law is Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010; section numbers here are the Schedule's own, which is how the Act cites them.