Tents Regulations
- Citation
- SOR/2024-217
- Jurisdiction
- CA
- Made by
- Government of Canada (Canada Consumer Product Safety Act)
- Instrument
- Regulation
- Status
- In force
What it requires (4 obligations)
Fabric and other pliable material of a tent, or of its components and accessories, must meet the requirements set out in section 5.2.1 of CAN/CGSB-182.1-2020 when tested in accordance with that standard.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Manufacturers, importers and sellers
- Products
- Textiles, coated fabrics, consumer products
- Markets
- CA
Components and accessories reach beyond the tent itself to side panels, curtains, footprints, flies and gear lofts, whether sold with the tent or separately. Four things are carved out and the carve-outs are where a supplier will look first: packaging, threads and zips and ropes and hook-and-loop and webbing, labels and logos of 1,000 square centimetres or less, and any fabric or pliable material of 1,000 square centimetres or less. The requirement itself is in CAN/CGSB-182.1-2020, which these Regulations incorporate as amended from time to time rather than at a fixed edition.
Drafted from section 2(1).
Flooring materials of a tent, as defined in section 4.3 of CAN/CGSB-182.1-2020, that do not meet the requirements of section 5.2.1 of that standard must instead meet the requirements of section 5.3.1 of it.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Manufacturers, importers and sellers
- Products
- Textiles, coated fabrics, consumer products
- Markets
- CA
A second route rather than an exemption: groundsheet material that fails the general fabric requirement is not thereby non-compliant, it is judged against a different clause of the same standard. Which clause applies turns on the standard's own definition of flooring, not on what the maker calls it.
Drafted from section 2(2).
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.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Manufacturers, importers and sellers
- Products
- Textiles, consumer products, childrenswear
- Markets
- CA
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.
Drafted from sections 3(1) to 3(3).
Where a new version of CAN/CGSB-182.1 is published, a tent that meets the requirement as it read immediately before that day may continue to meet that earlier requirement for one year from that day in the case of manufacture or import, and for two years from that day in the case of advertisement or sale.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Manufacturers, importers and sellers
- Products
- Textiles, coated fabrics, consumer products
- Markets
- CA
The counterweight to an incorporation that moves. Because the standard is adopted as amended from time to time, a new CGSB edition changes what these Regulations require without any further instrument being made; this section is what stops that being immediate. The two clocks differ by a year, and both start on the day the new version is published rather than on the day it is noticed, so the period is shorter than it looks for anyone who finds out late.
Drafted from section 4.
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