Hazardous Products Regulations

Marginal note:Order of decreasing severity

• 2 (1) In each Subpart of Parts 7 and 8, the categories and subcategories in each of the classification tables to those Subparts are set out in the order of the hazard’s decreasing severity, except for the categories of the classification table to Subpart 5 of Part 7.

• Marginal note:Evaluation — more severe hazard

  (2) If a product, mixture, material or substance has been evaluated in accordance with the criteria and requirements of a category or subcategory of a hazard class that represents the more severe hazard in a classification table compared to another category or subcategory of that hazard class in the same classification table and is classified in that category or subcategory, the product, mixture, material or substance need not be evaluated in respect of a category or subcategory of the same classification table of the same hazard class that represents a less severe hazard.

• Marginal note:Prescribed classification

  (3) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), any product, mixture, material or substance for which classification in a category or subcategory of a hazard class is prescribed in Schedule 4 is classified in that category or subcategory. The product, mixture, material or substance must also be evaluated in accordance with section 2.1, 2.2 or 2.7 in respect of each of the categories or subcategories of the other hazard classes.

• Marginal note:Ingredient — more severe hazard

  (4) If a product, mixture, material or substance is one for which classification in a category or subcategory of a hazard class is prescribed in Schedule 4, and if it has been mixed with one or more ingredients that are classified in a category or subcategory of the same classification table of the same hazard class that represents a more severe hazard, the mixture as a whole must be classified in the category or subcategory that represents the more severe hazard.

• Marginal note:Prescribed classification — Subpart 1, 4, 7 or 8 of Part 8

  (5) A mixture, material or substance — for which classification in a category or subcategory of a classification table of a hazard class set out in Subpart 1, 4, 7 or 8 of Part 8 is prescribed in Schedule 4 — must also be evaluated in accordance with section 2.1 or 2.2, in the case of Subpart 1, 4 or 7 of Part 8, in respect of each of the categories or subcategories of the other classification tables of the same hazard class, and in the case of Subpart 8 of Part 8, in respect of each of the categories of the same classification table.

• Marginal note:Impurities, stabilizing solvents and stabilizing additives — substance

  (6) Any impurities, stabilizing solvents or stabilizing additives that are known to the supplier to be present in a substance and that are classified must be considered for the purpose of classification of the substance if they are present at a concentration above the concentration limit for an ingredient in a mixture set out in a particular category or subcategory of any hazard class.

• Marginal note:Impurities, stabilizing solvents and stabilizing additives — mixture

  (7) Any impurities, stabilizing solvents or stabilizing additives that are known to the supplier to be present in a mixture and that are classified must be considered for the purpose of classification of the mixture if they are present at a concentration above the concentration limit for an ingredient in a mixture set out in a particular category or subcategory of any hazard class.

• Marginal note:Individually packaged in outer container

  (8) If two or more different and individually packaged products, mixtures, materials or substances, designed to be accessed individually, are packaged together in an outer container for sale or importation, the assemblage of the products, mixtures, materials and substances in the outer container must not be considered as a single product for the purpose of classification, as each product, mixture, material or substance is subject to the classification provisions of this Part.

• Marginal note:Animal data — not relevant to humans

  (9) Animal data that demonstrate conclusively, based on established scientific principles, that the mechanism or mode of action of the substance or mixture in animals is not relevant to humans must not be used for the purpose of classifying a substance or mixture in any of the health hazard classes referred to in Subparts 1 to 10 and 12 of Part 8.