Passenger Automobile and Light Truck Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations

Marginal note:Non application of the standards respecting CO₂ equivalent emissions

• 14 (1) A company that manufactured or imported in total less than 750 passenger automobiles and light trucks for either the 2008 or 2009 model years for sale in Canada is not subject to sections 13 and 17 to 20 for vehicles of the 2012 model year or vehicles of a subsequent model year provided that

  • (a) its average number of passenger automobiles and light trucks manufactured or imported for sale in Canada for the three most recent consecutive model years preceding the model year in question is less than 750; and

  • (b) the company submits a declaration as set out in section 35.

• Marginal note:Conditions

  (2) If a company’s average number of passenger automobiles and light trucks for the three most recent consecutive model years, that are manufactured or imported for sale in Canada, are equal to or more than 750 — other than by reason of the company purchasing another company —, the company becomes subject to sections 13, 17 to 20, and sections 32 to 33, for its passenger automobiles and light trucks of the following model year:

  • (a) if that average number is less than 7,500, that of the second model year after the last model year used to establish the average number; or

  • (b) if that average number is equal to or greater than 7,500, that of the model year after the last model year used to establish the average number.