Energy Efficiency Regulations, 2016

Marginal note:Prescribed information

• 5 (1) A dealer who, for the purpose of sale or lease, ships an energy-using product from one province to another or imports an energy-using product into Canada must, for the purpose of subsection 5(1) of the Act, provide the following information to the Minister:

  • (a) the name of the product as prescribed in these Regulations;

  • (b) the brand name of the product, if any;

  • (c) the product’s model number or, in the case of a motor, the product’s model number or unique motor identifier;

  • (d) the name of the product’s manufacturer;

  • (e) one of the following, namely,

    • (i) the name of the certification body or province whose verification mark will be on the product or its package,

    • (ii) in the case of a CFL, the name of the laboratory referred to in paragraph 4(3)(a) and the name of the laboratory or manufacturing facility referred to in paragraph 4(3)(b),

    • (iii) in the case of an external power supply, the name of the certification body referred to in paragraph 4(4)(b), or

    • (iv) in the case of a general service lamp or modified spectrum incandescent lamp for which there is no energy efficiency standard, if a laboratory that is accredited to test the energy performance of lighting products by either the Standards Council of Canada or the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program has verified the information displayed on the product’s package, the name of that laboratory;

  • (f) any other information that is prescribed in these Regulations to be provided to the Minister for the purpose of subsection 5(1) of the Act; and

  • (g) information that indicates whether a mathematical model described in subsection (3) was used to generate any of the information provided under paragraph (f).

• Marginal note:Manner and time

  (2) The information must be provided electronically or by fax, hand delivery, courier or mail before the product is imported into Canada or shipped from one province to another.

• Marginal note:Mathematical model

  (3) Despite any provision in these Regulations requiring that the information referred to in this section be collected in accordance with an identified standard, a dealer may instead provide the information as generated by a mathematical model that, by means of an engineering or statistical analysis or a computer simulation or model, emulates the manner in which the information is collected under the identified standard.