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C-296
First Session, Forty-first Parliament,
60 Elizabeth II, 2011
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-296
An Act to amend the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act and the Textile Labelling Act (animal fur or skin)

first reading, September 29, 2011

Ms. Davies

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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act to add products made in whole or in part of dog or cat fur to Schedule 2 to that Act.
The enactment also amends the Textile Labelling Act so that the definition “consumer textile article” includes any product made in whole or in part of animal skin from which the hair or fur has not been removed.

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1st Session, 41st Parliament,
60 Elizabeth II, 2011
house of commons of canada
BILL C-296
An Act to amend the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act and the Textile Labelling Act (animal fur or skin)
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
2010, c. 21
CANADA CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY ACT
1. Schedule 2 to the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act is amended by adding the following in numerical order:
16. Products made in whole or in part of dog or cat fur.
R.S., c. T-10
TEXTILE LABELLING ACT
2. The definition “consumer textile article” in section 2 of the Textile Labelling Act is amended by striking out “or” at the end of paragraph (a), by adding “or” at the end of paragraph (b) and by adding the following after paragraph (b):
(c) any product made in whole or in part of animal skin from which the hair or fur has not been removed
3. Subparagraph 6(b)(i) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(i) the generic name of each textile fibre,
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