Bill C-204
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1nd Session, 35th Parliament, 42 Elizabeth II, 1994
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The House of Commons of Canada
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BILL C-204 |
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An Act to amend the Consumer Packaging and
Labelling Act (nutritional value of food)
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| R.S., c. C-38;
c. 31 (1st
Supp.); 1992
c. 1
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1. Section 2 of the Consumer Packaging
and Labelling Act is amended by adding the
following in alphabetical order:
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| ``processed
food'' « aliment condition- né »
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``processed food'' means any food for human
consumption that, outside of Canada or in
Canada in an establishment that has more
than five full time employees, has been
cooked or is combined with other food and
that is intended for retail sale, but does not
include food sold
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2. The Act is amended by adding the
following after section 5:
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| Prohibition
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5.1 (1) No person shall prepackage any
product consisting of processed food unless
there is affixed to the package a list in English
and French showing the exact nutritional
value of the food in terms of
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| When
nutritional
value deemed
exact
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(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the
nutritional value shown on a processed food
package is deemed to be exact where, with
respect to each of the nutritional value
components named in subsection (1), no
variance thereof from the nutritional value of
the food determined by the Minister pursuant
to subsection 12(1.1) exceeds ten per cent of
the value so determined.
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3. (1) The heading before section 12 of the
Act is replaced by the following:
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RESEARCH, STUDIES AND ANALYSES |
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(2) Section 12 of the Act is amended by
adding the following after subsection (1):
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| Analysis
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(1.1) The Minister may submit for analysis
any prepackaged product consisting of
processed food, or any sample therefrom, that
has been seized and detained pursuant to this
Act.
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4. Section 20 of the Act is amended by
adding the following after subsection (1):
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| Contraven- tions of section 5.1
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(1.1) Every person who contravenes
section 5.1 is guilty of an offence and liable,
on summary conviction,
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5. Subsection 22(1) of the Act is replaced
by the following:
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| Identification
appearing on
labels
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22. (1) In any prosecution for an offence
under this Act, evidence that a label applied to
a product bore identification purporting to
identify the person by or for whom the product
was manufactured, produced or packaged is,
in the absence of evidence to the contrary,
proof that the person whose identification
appeared on the label is the person by or for
whom the product was manufactured or
produced and the person responsible for the
information and representations on the label.
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COMING INTO FORCE |
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| Coming into
force
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6. This Act shall come into force on a day
to be fixed by order of the Governor in
Council.
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