Textile Labelling and Advertising Regulations (C.R.C., c. 1551)

• 29. (1) For the purpose of section 31, the amount in which a textile fibre is present in a consumer textile article or a constituent part thereof shall be expressed, subject to subsections (2) and (3), as a percentage by mass of the total fibre mass of the consumer textile article or constituent part thereof respectively.

• (2) Where one textile fibre

  • (a) constitutes the textile fibre content of a consumer textile article or a constituent part thereof, or

  • (b) constitutes the textile fibre content of a consumer textile article or a constituent part, exclusive of any ornamentation, elastic yarn or reinforcement yarn that comprises less than five per cent by mass of the article or constituent part, if the textile fibre content of the article or constituent part is shown in the manner set out in paragraph 31(d),

  the word “all” or “pure” may be used in place of words or figures indicating 100 per cent.

• (3) Words or figures indicating 100 per cent or the words “all”, or “pure” may not be used where down or feather is the only textile fibre that constitutes the textile fibre content of a consumer textile article or a constituent part thereof unless the down or feather complies with the description of “down” or “feather” in paragraph 26(1)(c) or (d) respectively.

• 30. (1) A percentage by mass shown in a label or any advertisement for any of the following fibres shall not exceed or fall short of the actual percentage by mass of the fibre or any constituent or component of the fibre by more than five per cent:

  • (a) a textile fibre;

  • (b) a constituent of a biconstituent or multiconstituent fibre; or

  • (c) a component of a grafted textile fibre.

• (2) The tolerance established by subsection (1) in respect of a textile fibre does not apply

  • (a) where only one textile fibre constitutes the textile fibre content of a textile fibre product or a part thereof; or

  • (b) where the textile fibre content is a blend of two or more of commercial down, commercial landfowl feather or commercial waterfowl feather.

31. The textile fibre content of a consumer textile article or constituent part shall be shown in the following manner:

• (a) subject to section 32, each textile fibre that is present in the article or constituent part in an amount of five per cent or more by mass shall be shown

  • (i) by its generic name,

  • (ii) subject to section 31.1, in order of predominance by mass, and

  • (iii) subject to paragraph (d), section 31.01 and subsection 34(2), with the amount in which it is present preceding or immediately following the generic name of the fibre;

• (b) subject to paragraphs (c) and (d), each textile fibre that is present in the article or constituent part in an amount less than five per cent by mass shall be shown

  • (i) in the following manner, namely,

    • (A) as “other fibre”,

    • (B) immediately after the fibre or fibres shown in accordance with paragraph (a), and

    • (C) subject to subsection 34(2), with the amount in which it is present immediately preceding or following the words “other fibre”, or

  • (ii) as prescribed in paragraph (a);

• (c) where there is more than one textile fibre present in the article or constituent part in an amount less than five per cent by mass, all such fibres that are not shown in a manner described in paragraph (a) shall be shown in the aggregate as “other fibres”

  • (i) immediately after the fibre or fibres shown in accordance with paragraph (a), and

  • (ii) subject to section 31.01 and subsection 34(2), with the aggregate amount immediately preceding or following the words “other fibres”; and

• (d) where the article or constituent part contains, as an integral part, ornamentation, an elastic yarn or a reinforcement yarn that comprises less than five per cent by mass of the article or constituent part, the textile fibre content of the article or constituent part may be shown exclusive of ornamentation, elastic yarn or reinforcement yarn if

  • (i) the percentage by mass of each textile fibre present in the article or constituent part that is not part of the ornamentation, elastic yarn or reinforcement yarn is increased  proportionately so that the total percentage of all such fibres equals 100 per cent, and

  • (ii) the words “exclusive of ornamentation”, “exclusive of elastic” or “exclusive of reinforcement”, as the case may be, are shown immediately after the percentage of fibres referred to in subparagraph (i).

• (e) [Revoked, SOR/91-477, s. 3]