Prohibition of the Manufacture and Importation of Wheel Weights Containing Lead Regulations

Whereas, under subsection 332(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, the Minister of the Environment published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on July 3, 2021, a copy of the proposed Prohibition of the Manufacture and Importation of Wheel Weights Containing Lead Regulations, substantially in the annexed form, under the title Prohibiting the Manufacture and Import of Wheel Weights Containing Lead in Canada Regulations, and persons were given an opportunity to file comments with respect to the proposed Regulations or to file a notice of objection requesting that a board of review be established and stating the reasons for the objection;^notenoteWhereas, under subsection 93(3) of that Act, the National Advisory Committee has been given an opportunity to provide its advice under section 6 of that Act;^noteAnd whereas, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, under subsection 93(4) of that Act, the proposed Regulations do not regulate an aspect of a substance that is regulated by or under any other Act of Parliament in a manner that provides, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, sufficient protection to the environment and human health;Therefore, Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Health, makes the annexed Prohibition of the Manufacture and Importation of Wheel Weights Containing Lead Regulations under subsection 93(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.