New Substances Notification Regulations (Chemicals and Polymers) (SOR/2005-247)

Marginal note:Manufacture or import: quantities greater than 100 kg, 1 000 kg and 10 000 kg

• 8. (1) Every person that manufactures or imports a chemical that is not on the NDSL — other than a chemical referred to in section 5 — must provide to the Minister

  • (a) at least 5 days before the day on which the quantity of the chemical exceeds 100 kg in a calendar year,

    • (i) the information specified in Schedule 4, and

    • (ii) if the chemical is a biochemical, the information specified in items 1 to 3 of Schedule 2;

  • (b) at least 60 days before the day on which the quantity of the chemical exceeds 1 000 kg in a calendar year,

    • (i) the information specified in Schedule 5, and

    • (ii) if the chemical is a biochemical, the information specified in items 1 to 4 of Schedule 2 and

      • (A) if the biochemical is a nucleic acid, the information specified in items 5 and 6 of Schedule 2, and

      • (B) if the biochemical possesses enzymatic capability, the information specified in items 7 to 13 of Schedule 2; and

  • (c) at least 75 days before the day on which the quantity of the chemical exceeds 10 000 kg in a calendar year,

    • (i) the information specified in Schedule 6 and

    • (ii) if the chemical is a biochemical, the information specified in items 1 to 4 of Schedule 2 and

      • (A) if the biochemical is a nucleic acid, the information specified in items 5 and 6 of Schedule 2, and

      • (B) if the biochemical possesses enzymatic capability, the information specified in items 7 to 13 of Schedule 2.

• Marginal note:Notification

  (2) The person that has submitted the information referred to in subparagraph (1)(b)(i) together with the information referred to in item 10 of Schedule 5 respecting a chemical or biochemical that is subsequently added to the NDSL must notify the Minister, in writing, that the chemical or biochemical is specified on the NDSL.

Marginal note:Description

9. A reduced regulatory requirement polymer is

• (a) a polymer that is not one of the types listed in items 1 to 4 of Schedule 7 and that has a number average molecular weight greater than 10 000 daltons, with less than 2% of its components having molecular weights of less than 500 daltons and less than 5% of its components having molecular weights of less than 1 000 daltons;

• (b) a polymer that is not one of the types listed in Schedule 7 and that has a number average molecular weight greater than 1 000 daltons and equal to or less than 10 000 daltons, with less than 10% of its components having molecular weights of less than 500 daltons and less than 25% of its components having molecular weights of less than 1 000 daltons; or

• (c) a polymer that is a polyester manufactured solely from reactants listed in Schedule 8, or an anhydrous form of those reactants, other than the reactants or their anhydrous forms that include both 1-butanol and fumaric or maleic acid.