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Food and Drugs Act

Version of section 30 from 2016-12-12 to 2017-06-19:


Marginal note:Regulations

  •  (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for carrying the purposes and provisions of this Act into effect, and, in particular, but without restricting the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations

    • (a) declaring that any food or drug or class of food or drugs is adulterated if any prescribed substance or class of substances is present therein or has been added thereto or extracted or omitted therefrom;

    • (b) respecting

      • (i) the labelling and packaging and the offering, exposing and advertising for sale of food, drugs, cosmetics and devices,

      • (ii) the size, dimensions, fill and other specifications of packages of food, drugs, cosmetics and devices,

      • (iii) the sale or the conditions of sale of any food, drug, cosmetic or device, and

      • (iv) the use of any substance as an ingredient in any food, drug, cosmetic or device,

      to prevent the purchaser or consumer thereof from being deceived or misled in respect of the design, construction, performance, intended use, quantity, character, value, composition, merit or safety thereof, or to prevent injury to the health of the purchaser or consumer;

    • (c) prescribing standards of composition, strength, potency, purity, quality or other property of any article of food, drug, cosmetic or device;

    • (d) respecting the importation of food, drugs, cosmetics and devices — including any importation that is solely for the purpose of export — in order to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations;

    • (e) respecting the method of manufacture, preparation, preserving, packing, storing and testing of any food, drug, cosmetic or device in the interest of, or for the prevention of injury to, the health of the purchaser or consumer;

    • (f) requiring persons who sell food, drugs, cosmetics or devices, or persons who import them solely for the purpose of export, to maintain any books and records that the Governor in Council considers necessary for the purposes of this Act;

    • (g) respecting the form and manner of the Minister’s indication under section 12, including the fees payable therefor, and prescribing what premises or what processes or conditions of manufacture, including qualifications of technical staff, shall or shall not be deemed to be suitable for the purposes of that section;

    • (h) requiring manufacturers of any drugs described in Schedule E to submit test portions of any batch of those drugs and respecting the form and manner of the Minister’s indication under section 13, including the fees payable therefor;

    • (h.1) respecting the establishment by the Minister of the list referred to in subsection 29.1(1), including amendments to it;

    • (i) respecting the powers, duties and functions of inspectors and analysts and the taking of samples;

    • (i.1) respecting the seizure, detention, forfeiture and disposition of articles under this Act;

    • (j) exempting, with or without conditions, any food, drug, cosmetic, device, person or activity from all or any of the provisions of this Act or the regulations;

    • (k) prescribing forms for the purposes of this Act and the regulations;

    • (k.1) respecting the time and manner in which information, notices and documents are to be provided or served under this Act;

    • (l) providing for the analysis of food, drugs or cosmetics other than for the purposes of this Act and prescribing a tariff of fees to be paid for that analysis;

    • (l.1) respecting the assessment of the effect on the environment or on human life and health of the release into the environment of any food, drug, cosmetic or device, and the measures to take before importing or selling any such food, drug, cosmetic or device;

    • (m) adding anything to any of the schedules, in the interest of, or for the prevention of injury to, the health of the purchaser or consumer, or deleting anything therefrom;

    • (n) respecting the distribution or the conditions of distribution of samples of any drug;

    • (o) respecting

      • (i) the method of manufacture, preparation, preserving, packing, labelling, storing and testing of any new drug, and

      • (ii) the sale or the conditions of sale of any new drug,

      and defining for the purposes of this Act the expression new drug;

    • (p) authorizing the advertising to the general public of contraceptive devices and drugs manufactured, sold or represented for use in the prevention of conception and prescribing the circumstances and conditions under which, and the persons by whom, those devices and drugs may be so advertised;

    • (q) defining agricultural chemical, food additive, mineral nutrient, veterinary drug and vitamin for the purposes of this Act;

    • (r) respecting marketing authorizations, including establishing the eligibility criteria for submitting an application for such authorizations or for amending such authorizations;

    • (s) respecting the implementation, in relation to any food, drug, cosmetic or device, of international agreements that affect them; and

    • (t) prescribing anything that by this Act is to be prescribed.

  • Marginal note:Classes

    (1.1) A regulation made under this Act may establish classes and distinguish among those classes.

  • Marginal note:Regulations — therapeutic products

    (1.2) Without limiting the power conferred by any other subsection of this section, the Governor in Council may make regulations

    • (a) respecting the issuance of authorizations — including licences — that authorize, as the case may be, the import, sale, advertisement, manufacture, preparation, preservation, packaging, labelling, storage or testing of a therapeutic product, and the amendment, suspension and revocation of such authorizations;

    • (b) authorizing the Minister to impose terms and conditions on authorizations referred to in paragraph (a), including existing authorizations, and to amend those terms and conditions;

    • (b.1) requiring the Minister to ensure that decisions with regard to the issuance, amendment, suspension and revocation of authorizations referred to in paragraph (a), and to the imposition and amendment of terms and conditions referred to in paragraph (b), along with the reasons for those decisions, are publicly available;

    • (c) requiring holders of a therapeutic product authorization that authorizes the import or sale of a therapeutic product for a clinical trial or investigational test involving human subjects, or former holders of such an authorization, to provide the Minister, after the trial or test is completed or discontinued, or, if the authorization is suspended or revoked, after the suspension or revocation, with safety information that the holders or former holders receive or become aware of about the therapeutic product;

    • (c.1) defining clinical trial and investigational test for the purposes of this Act;

    • (d) requiring holders of a therapeutic product authorization to provide the Minister with information, in respect of any serious risk of injury to human health, that the holders receive or become aware of and that is relevant to the safety of the therapeutic product to which the authorization relates, regarding

      • (i) risks that have been communicated outside Canada, and the manner of the communication,

      • (ii) changes that have taken place to labelling outside Canada, and

      • (iii) recalls, reassessments and suspensions or revocations of authorizations, including licences, in respect of a therapeutic product, that have taken place outside Canada;

    • (d.1) specifying the business information obtained under this Act in relation to an authorization under paragraph (a) that is not confidential business information, or the circumstances in which business information obtained under this Act in relation to such an authorization ceases to be confidential business information;

    • (d.2) authorizing the Minister to disclose, without notifying the person to whose business or affairs the information relates or obtaining their consent, business information that, under regulations made under paragraph (d.1),

      • (i) is not confidential business information, or

      • (ii) has ceased to be confidential business information;

    • (e) respecting modifications of labels and modifications and replacements of packages referred to in section 21.2;

    • (f) respecting the recall of a therapeutic product or the sale of a therapeutic product that is the subject of a recall; and

    • (g) prescribing anything that is to be prescribed under section 21.71.

  • Marginal note:Regulations respecting drugs manufactured outside Canada

    (2) Without limiting the power conferred by any other subsection of this section, the Governor in Council may make such regulations governing, regulating or prohibiting

    • (a) the importation into Canada of any drug or class of drugs manufactured outside Canada, or

    • (b) the distribution or sale in Canada, or the offering, exposing or having in possession for sale in Canada, of any drug or class of drugs manufactured outside Canada,

    as the Governor in Council deems necessary for the protection of the public in relation to the safety and quality of any such drug or class of drugs.

  • Marginal note:Regulations — North American Free Trade Agreement and WTO Agreement

    (3) Without limiting the power conferred by any other subsection of this section, the Governor in Council may make any regulations that the Governor in Council considers necessary for the purpose of implementing, in relation to drugs, Article 1711 of the North American Free Trade Agreement or paragraph 3 of Article 39 of the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights set out in Annex 1C to the WTO Agreement.

  • Marginal note:Definitions

    (4) In subsection (3),

    North American Free Trade Agreement

    North American Free Trade Agreement has the meaning given to the word “Agreement” by subsection 2(1) of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act; (Accord de libre-échange nord-américain)

    WTO Agreement

    WTO Agreement has the meaning given to the word “Agreement” by subsection 2(1) of the World Trade Organization Agreement Implementation Act. (Accord sur l’OMC)

  • Marginal note:Regulations to implement General Council Decision

    (5) Without limiting the power conferred by any other subsection of this section, the Governor in Council may make any regulations that the Governor in Council considers necessary for the purpose of implementing the General Council Decision.

  • Marginal note:Definitions

    (6) The definitions in this subsection apply in this subsection and in subsection (5).

    General Council

    General Council means the General Council of the WTO established by paragraph 2 of Article IV of the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, signed at Marrakesh on April 15, 1994. (Conseil général)

    General Council Decision

    General Council Decision means the decision of the General Council of August 30, 2003 respecting Article 31 of the TRIPS Agreement, including the interpretation of that decision in the General Council Chairperson’s statement of that date. (décision du Conseil général)

    TRIPS Agreement

    TRIPS Agreement means the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, being Annex 1C of the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, signed at Marrakesh on April 15, 1994. (Accord sur les ADPIC)

    WTO

    WTO means the World Trade Organization established by Article I of the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, signed at Marrakesh on April 15, 1994. (OMC)

  • R.S., 1985, c. F-27, s. 30
  • 1993, c. 44, s. 158
  • 1994, c. 47, s. 117
  • 1999, c. 33, s. 347
  • 2004, c. 23, s. 2
  • 2005, c. 42, s. 2
  • 2012, c. 19, ss. 414, 415
  • 2014, c. 24, s. 6
  • 2016, c. 9, s. 8

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