BILL NO. 253
(as introduced)
1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
54 Elizabeth II, 2005
Unsafe Products Act
Maureen MacDonald
Halifax Needham
First Reading: October 20, 2005
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
An Act to Regulate the Use of Unsafe Products
in Public Places in Nova Scotia
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Unsafe Products Act.
2 Where the Governor in Council is of the opinion that use of a product in a public place poses a threat to public health or safety, the Governor in Council may, by regulation, prescribe that product as being unsafe for use in a public place.
3 No person shall(a) use in a public place a product that has been prescribed pursuant to this Act as being unsafe for use in a public place; or
(b) sell a product that has been prescribed pursuant to this Act as being unsafe for use in a public place to another person where the person knows or has reason to believe that the other person plans to use the product in a public place.
4 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations(a) prescribing a product or class of products as being unsafe for use in a public place;
from the application of this Act;
(c) defining any word or expression used but not defined in this Act;
(d) respecting any matter the Governor in Council considers necessary or advisable to carry out effectively the intent and purpose of this Act.
(2) The Governor General shall, within six months of the coming into force of this Section, make regulations prescribing any hook with an elongated tip, the end of which is less than one square centimetre in area, that is intended to be used to display merchandise as being unsafe for use in a public place.
(3) The exercise by the Governor in Council of the authority contained in this Section is regulations within the meaning of the Regulations Act.
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