Heavy-duty Vehicle and Engine Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations

Marginal note:On-Road Vehicle and Engine Emission Regulations

• 14 (1) An emission control system that is installed in a heavy-duty vehicle or heavy-duty engine for the purpose of conforming to the standards set out in these Regulations must comply with subsection 11(1) of the On-Road Vehicle and Engine Emission Regulations.

• Marginal note:Defeat device

  (2) A heavy-duty vehicle or heavy-duty engine must not be equipped with a defeat device.

• Marginal note:Exception — emergency vehicles

  (2.1) Despite subsection (2), an emergency vehicle may be equipped with a defeat device if the device is one that is activated during emergency response operations to maintain speed, torque or power in either of the following circumstances:

  • (a) the emission control system is in an abnormal state;

  • (b) the device acts to maintain the emission control system in a normal state.

• Marginal note:Test procedures

  (3) Subsections 11(3) and (4) of the On-Road Vehicle and Engine Emission Regulations apply except that the test procedures in question are the ones set out in these Regulations.