BILL C-76

SHORT TITLE

INTERPRETATION

(a) any device or article manufactured, sold or represented for use in modifying the composition, characteristics or prop erties of water destined to be used by humans for drinking or for washing the body, regardless of whether the water was originally fit for either of those purposes, and includes any component or accessory that is sold with any such device or article;

(b) any chemical or biological substance, or any organism, manufactured, sold or represented as a means, when added to water, for modifying the composition, characteristics or properties of water destined to be used by humans for drinking or for washing the body, regard less of whether the water was originally fit for either of those purposes;

(c) any component of a water supply system, other than a drinking water material referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), that is likely to come into contact with

(i) water destined to be used by humans for drinking or for washing the body, or

(ii) a drinking water material referred to in paragraph (b);

(d) any thing or class of things prescribed by the regulations to be a drinking water material; and

(e) any replacement part for a drinking water material referred to in any of paragraphs (a), (c) and (d).

(a) a person authorized to certify the drinking water material has determined that the drinking water material meets the standards prescribed by the regulations in respect of that drinking water material and has issued a recognition of certification, in such form and manner as that person considers appropriate, in respect of that drinking water material;

(b) the drinking water material's recogni tion of certification has not been revoked by the person who issued it; and

(c) the drinking water material was manufactured, packaged or labelled during the period that the drinking water material's recognition of certification was in force, or was deemed to have been manufactured, packaged or labelled during that period by the person who issued the recognition of certification.

PURPOSE OF ACT

(a) the certification and regulation of drink ing water materials;

(b) the making of national drinking water quality guidelines; and

(c) the conduct of research into maintaining and improving the quality of drinking water.

HER MAJESTY

NATIONAL DRINKING WATER GUIDELINES

(a) the concentrations of organisms, organic and inorganic substances and radionu clides, naturally occurring or otherwise, in drinking water;

(b) the physical and chemical properties of drinking water;

(c) the aesthetic characteristics of drinking water;

(d) the methods for analysing drinking water; and

(e) the collection, treatment, storage and distribution of water destined to be used by humans for drinking or for washing the body.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

(a) the factors that may affect the quality and safety of drinking water;

(b) the safety and effectiveness of drinking water materials;

(c) the methods for analysing drinking water; and

(d) the collection, treatment, storage and distribution of water destined to be used by humans for drinking or for washing the body.

ACCREDITATION AND CERTIFICATION

(a) the drinking water material is certified; and

(b) the drinking water material meets the standards prescribed by the regulations in respect of that drinking water material, as those standards read at the time the recogni tion of certification was issued in respect of the drinking water material.

DECEPTIVE PRACTICES

(a) its character, composition, manufacture, value, quantity, performance, merit, safety or intended use;

(b) its conformity with any standard pre scribed by the regulations; or

(c) its certification.

(a) regarding its effect on water or on human health, or

(b) regarding the effect on human health of water that comes into contact with or that is, or is purported to be, modified by the drinking water material,

ENFORCEMENT

(a) there is any information relating to the accrediting activities of an accreditation organization;

(b) there is any information relating to the certification activities of a person autho rized to certify drinking water materials;

(c) drinking water materials are manufac tured, preserved, stored, packaged or la belled;

(d) there is any thing used, or capable of being used, in the manufacture of a drinking water material; or

(e) there is any information relating to the manufacture, packaging, labelling, im portation or sale of a drinking water materi al.

(a) examine any drinking water material in the place and any thing in the place that the inspector believes on reasonable grounds is used, or capable of being used, in the manufacture, preservation, storage, pack aging or labelling of drinking water materi als;

(b) require any person in the place to produce for inspection, in the manner and form requested by the inspector, any drink ing water material or thing referred to in paragraph (a);

(c) open or require any person in the place to open any container or package found in the place that the inspector believes on reasonable grounds contains any drinking water material or thing referred to in paragraph (a);

(d) take or require any person in the place to produce a sample of any drinking water material or thing referred to in paragraph (a);

(e) conduct any test or analysis or take any measurements; and

(f) require any person found in the place to produce for inspection or copying any written or electronic information or record that the inspector believes on reasonable grounds is relevant to the enforcement of this Act.

(a) use or cause to be used any computer system in the place to search any data contained in or available to the computer system;

(b) reproduce any record or cause it to be reproduced from the data in the form of a printout or other intelligible output and take the printout or output for examination or copying; and

(c) use or cause to be used any copying equipment in the place to make copies of any record found in the place.

(a) that the dwelling-place is a place referred to in subsection 14(1);