Products Containing Mercury Regulations

Marginal note:Hg Symbol

• 9 (1) Any person that manufactures or imports any of the following products must ensure that the symbol Hg is indicated in a font size of at least 10 points with characters that are at least 3 mm in height or within a pictogram of a least 7 mm in height such that it is legible and indelible and impressed, embossed or in a colour that contrasts with the label’s background or the colour of the product, as applicable, in the following location:

  • (a) in the case of a product belonging to a product category referred to in any of items 2 to 9, 12 to 14, 22 or 23, column 1, of the schedule, in a readily visible location on the product; and

  • (b) in the case of a product that contains a product belonging to a product category referred to in item 10 or 11, column 1, of the schedule, in a readily visible location on an external surface of the product.

• Marginal note:Small product

  (2) Despite subsection (1), if a product referred to in paragraph (1)(a) is too small to accommodate the symbol Hg in a font size of at least 10 points with characters that are at least 3 mm in height, the symbol Hg must be indicated in the closest possible font size and character height and be, at a minimum, in a font size of 7 points with characters that are 2 mm in height.