Motor Vehicle Tire Safety Regulations (SOR/2013-198)

Reports

Marginal note:Initial report — notice to current owners

• 13.02 (1) Within five working days after the day on which a company begins sending a notice of defect or non-compliance to current owners, the company must provide the Minister with a report containing

  • (a) a copy of the notice;

  • (b) a sample of the envelope used to mail the notice;

  • (c) the date on which the company began sending notices;

  • (d) the date on which the company finished, or expects to finish, sending notices;

  • (e) the number of tires that are subject to the notice; and

  • (f) the tire identification number for each tire that may contain the defect or may be non-compliant, unless that information is provided to the Minister under paragraph (3)(a).

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Despite paragraph (1)(b), a company is not required to provide a sample of the envelope if it uses an envelope that has previously been provided as a sample to the Minister and the report includes the date on which the sample was provided.

• Marginal note:Initial report — notice to prescribed persons

  (3) Within five working days after the day on which a company begins sending a notice of defect or non-compliance to prescribed persons, the company must provide to the Minister a report containing

  • (a) a copy of the notice; and

  • (b) if no notices are sent to current owners, the number of tires that are subject to the notice.

• Marginal note:Follow-up reports

  (4) For a period of five years beginning on the 60th day after the day on which a company gives a notice to the Minister under subsection 10(1) or 10.1 of the Act, the company must provide the Minister, within five working days after the day on which they are sent to their recipients, a copy of any of the following communications, with the date on which they were sent to their recipients:

  • (a) communications sent to more than one current owner relating to the defect or non-compliance; and

  • (b) communications sent to more than one prescribed person relating to

    • (i) the information set out in subsection 13(9) or 13.01(9), and

    • (ii) the defect or non-compliance.

Marginal note:Quarterly reports

• 13.03 (1) For the purposes of section 10.2 of the Act, a company that gives a notice of defect or non-compliance to a current owner or a prescribed person must provide the Minister with quarterly reports that contain the following information:

  • (a) the motor vehicle safety recall number that is issued by the Department of Transport;

  • (b) the number, title or other identification that is assigned by the company to the notice;

  • (c) the number of tires that are subject to the notice, including the day on which the number was updated by the company;

  • (d) the number of tires for which corrective measures have been taken, including those that required only an inspection, and the day on which that number was determined by the company; and

  • (e) a statement setting out the manner in which the company disposed of the defective tires.

• Marginal note:Calendar

  (2) The company must provide the Minister with quarterly reports, in accordance with the following schedule, for a period of two years beginning on the 60th day after the day on which the company gives a notice to the Minister under subsection 10(1) or 10.1(1) of the Act:

  • (a) for the first calendar quarter, from January 1 through March 31, on or before April 30;

  • (b) for the second calendar quarter, from April 1 through June 30, on or before July 30;

  • (c) for the third calendar quarter, from July 1 through September 30, on or before October 30; and

  • (d) for the fourth calendar quarter, from October 1 through December 31, on or before January 30 of the following year.

Transitional Provision, Consequential Amendment, Repeal and Coming into Force

Transitional Provision

Marginal note:Conformity

14 Until September 1, 2014, tires of a class prescribed by subsection 3(1), 4(1) or 5(1) may, instead of conforming to the applicable requirements of sections 3 to 5, conform to the applicable requirements of sections 5, 6 and 8 to 10 of the Motor Vehicle Tire Safety Regulations, 1995 as they read on the day before the day on which these Regulations came into force.

Consequential Amendment to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations

15 [Amendment]

Repeal

16 [Repeal]

Coming Into Force

Marginal note:Publication date

Footnote ^*17 These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are published in the Canada Gazette, Part II.

• Return to footnote ^*[Note: Regulations in force November 20, 2013.]