Motor Vehicle Origin and Components Disclosure Act, 2007 Ouellette, Jerry J. — Bill 9 (39th Parliament, 1st Session)

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Bill 9, Motor Vehicle Origin and Components Disclosure Act, 2007

Ouellette, Jerry J.

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Act to require the disclosure of the country of origin

and the components of motor vehicles sold in Ontario

Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Definition

1. In

this Act,

"motor

vehicle" means an automobile, motorcycle, motor assisted bicycle and any other

vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power, but does not

include a street car, any other motorized vehicle running only upon rails, a

motorized snow vehicle, a traction engine, a farm tractor or other

self-propelled machinery primarily intended for farming or construction

purposes.

Disclosure

requirements

(1) No

person or body shall sell or offer to sell a motor vehicle in Ontario unless,

(

a) all

advertising done to promote the sale of the vehicle clearly indicates the

information described in subsection (3);

(

b) any

contract for the sale of the vehicle, if the vehicle is delivered to the

purchaser under the contract after the day on which this Act comes into force,

clearly indicates the information described in subsection (3); and

(

c) the

information described in subsection (3) is clearly indicated on the vehicle

when it is delivered to the purchaser, if it is delivered to the purchaser

after the day on which this Act comes into force.

Same,

advertiser

(2) No person or body shall publish advertising to promote

the sale of a motor vehicle in Ontario unless it clearly indicates the

information described in subsection (3).

Information

to disclose

(3) The information that a person or body is required to

disclose under subsection (1) or (2) is,

(

a) the

name of the country in which the motor vehicle was produced;

(

b) a

list of the components, if any, that make up the motor vehicle, set out in

decreasing order of the proportion in which they make up the vehicle; and

(

c) the

name of the country in which each of the components, if any, that make up the

motor vehicle was produced and the proportion in which each of them makes up

the vehicle.

Vehicle

with components

(4) For the purposes of clause (3) (a), if a motor vehicle

is made up of components, the country in which the vehicle was produced is the

country in which the components were assembled to produce the vehicle and is

not the country in which each of the components was produced.

Offences

(1) A

person or body that contravenes

section 2 is guilty of an offence unless it was

reasonable in the circumstances for the person or body to rely on information

provided to the person or body in the normal course of business.

Directors,

officers

(2) It is an offence for any director or officer of a

corporation to cause, authorize, permit, or participate or acquiesce in the

commission by the corporation of an offence mentioned in subsection (1).

Penalty

(3) A person or body convicted of an offence under this

Act is liable to,

(

a) if

the person or body is not a corporation, a fine of not more than $50,000 or to

imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, or to both; or

(

b) if

the person or body is a corporation, to a fine of not more than $500,000.

Regulations

(1) The Lieutenant Governor in

Council may make regulations,

(

a) exempting

any person, body or thing or class of persons, bodies or things from any or all

of the provisions of this Act and the regulations made under this Act;

(

b) defining,

for the purposes of

section 2 but subject to subsection 2 (4), advertising,

contract and the country in which a motor vehicle is produced;

(

c) specifying

the manner of indicating the country as required by

section 2.

Scope

(2) A regulation made under this Act may be general or

particular in its application.

Commencement

5. This

Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

6. The

short title of this Act is the Motor Vehicle Origin and

Components Disclosure Act, 2007 .

EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill requires advertisers and persons or bodies that sell or offer to sell

motor vehicles in Ontario to clearly indicate in the advertising and sales

contracts the country in which the vehicles and their constituent components

were produced and the proportion in which each of the components makes up the

vehicles. Sellers are also required to clearly indicate that information on

motor vehicles that are delivered to purchasers. It is an offence to contravene

the requirements.

Date Bill stage Activity Committee

December 5, 2007

First Reading

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

December 5, 2007

Committee

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent :

Coming into force :

Royal Assent.

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