Bill C-298
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1st Session, 39th Parliament,
55-56 Elizabeth II, 2006-2007
house of commons of canada
BILL C-298
An Act to add perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and its salts to the Virtual Elimination List under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
SHORT TITLE
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Perfluorooctane Sulfonate Virtual Elimination Act.
INTERPRETATION
Definition
2. In this Act, “Ministers” means the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Health.
ADDITION TO THE LIST
Addition of perfluorooctane sulfonate and its salts
3. (1) The Ministers shall, within nine months after the coming into force of this Act, make a regulation to add perfluorooctane sulfonate and its salts to the Virtual Elimination List compiled under subsection 65(2) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.
Exception — subsection 65(2)
(2) The Ministers are not required to specify in the regulation referred to in subsection (1) the level of quantification for perfluorooctane sulfonate or its salts, despite subsection 65(2) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.
Exception — subsection 65(3)
(3) If the Ministers specify in the Virtual Elimination List the level of quantification for perfluorooctane sulfonate or its salts, the Ministers are not required to make the regulation described in subsection 65(3) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons