Radiation Emitting Devices Act

Marginal note:Sale, lease, importation

4 Except as authorized by regulations made under paragraph 13(1)(c), no person shall sell, lease or import into Canada a radiation emitting device if the device

• (a) does not comply with the standards, if any, prescribed under paragraph 13(1)(b) and applicable thereto; or

• (b) creates a risk to any individual of genetic or personal injury, impairment of health or death from radiation by reason of the fact that it

  • (i) does not perform according to the performance characteristics claimed for it,

  • (ii) does not accomplish its claimed purpose, or

  • (iii) emits radiation that is not necessary in order for it to accomplish its claimed purpose.