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Second Session, Forty-third Parliament,

69-70 Elizabeth II, 2020-2021

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-285
An Act to amend the Pest Control Products Act (glyphosate)

FIRST READING, April 15, 2021

Mrs. Atwin

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SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Pest Control Products Act to prohibit the manufacturing, possession, handling, storing, transportation, importation, distribution or use of glyphosate.

Available on the House of Commons website at the following address:
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2nd Session, 43rd Parliament,

69-70 Elizabeth II, 2020-2021

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-285

An Act to amend the Pest Control Products Act (glyphosate)

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

2002, c. 28

Pest Control Products Act

Amendment to the Act

1Section 6 of the Pest Control Products Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):

Glyphosate
Start of inserted block

(1.‍1)No person shall manufacture, possess, handle, store, transport, import, distribute or use glyphosate as a pest control product.

End of inserted block

Transitional Provision

Registration cancelled

2The registration of glyphosate under the Pest Control Products Act is cancelled.

Coming into Force

One year after royal assent

3This Act comes into force one year after the day on which it receives royal assent.

Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons

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