Natural Health Products Regulations (SOR/2003-196)

Regulations are current to 2013-04-29 and last amended on 2008-06-01. Previous Versions

Exemptions

Advertising

 A natural health product is exempt from subsection 3(1) of the Act with respect to its advertisement to the general public as a preventative, but not as a treatment or cure, for any of the diseases, disorders or abnormal physical states referred to in Schedule A to the Act.

  • SOR/2007-288, s. 2.

Sale

 A natural health product is exempt from subsection 3(2) of the Act with respect to its sale by a person where the natural health product is represented by label or is advertised by that person to the general public as a preventative, but not as a treatment or cure, for any of the diseases, disorders or abnormal physical states referred to in Schedule A to the Act.

  • SOR/2007-288, s. 2.

PART 6

AMENDMENTS, TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND COMING INTO FORCE

Amendments

Food and Drug Regulations

 Section C.01.030 of the Food and Drug RegulationsFootnote 1 is repealed.

 Division 4 of Part D of the Regulations is repealed.

 Sections D.05.001 to D.05.007 of the Regulations are repealed.

 Section D.05.010 of the Regulations is repealed.

Transitional Provisions

  •  (1) Subject to section 110, a person may, without complying with these Regulations, sell a drug to which these Regulations apply that is assigned a drug identification number in accordance with section C.01.014.2(1) of the Food and Drug Regulations, until the earlier of

    • (a) the day on which an application for a product licence in respect of the drug is disposed of or withdrawn, and

    • (b) December 31, 2009.

  • (2) A person who sells a drug under subsection (1) shall conduct that sale in accordance with the requirements of the Food and Drug Regulations.

 An application for a product licence that is made in respect of a drug referred to in subsection 108(1) on or before December 31, 2009 is not required to contain the information referred to in paragraph 5(g).

 A sale or importation of a drug to which these Regulations apply that, before January 1, 2004, is authorized for the purposes of a clinical trial under Division 5 of Part C of the Food and Drug Regulations shall continue to be regulated under that Division.

 Until December 31, 2009, a person may sell a lot or batch of a drug referred to in section 108 that is not labelled or packaged in accordance with the requirements of Part 5 if the lot or batch is packaged in accordance with the requirements of the Food and Drug Regulations.