CANADA: MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY REGULATIONS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif. 95.325. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: Canada. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2): 2. Agency responsible: Department of Transport. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Motor vehicles. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Proposed Amendment to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (pages 3741-3745). 6. Description of content: This amendment will: (a) Require alterers and intermediate and final stage manufacturers to respect the gross axle weight ratings and gross vehicle weight rating determined for the vehicle by the original manufacturer; (b) require the manufacturers of motor homes, recreational trailers, altered vans, altered multipurpose passenger vehicles, and vehicles manufactured from chassis with a cutaway cab to state their cargo-carrying capacity and designated seating capacity on the compliance label or on a separate label placed beside the compliance label; (c) for motor homes and recreational trailers, require that the above label specify the mass of the contents of each fresh-water tank and waste tank, when full, and state the cargo-carrying capacity of the vehicle was determined with the fresh-water tanks full and the waste tanks empty; (d) change the term ``rated cargo mass'', which is used in determining the GVWR, to ``cargo-carrying capacity'' and redefine ``unloaded vehicle mass'' to clarify that the mass of the unloaded vehicle includes all the equipment necessary to carry out its intended function; and (e) require that the number of seat belts installed in a motor home be no less than the number of sleeping positions. 7. Objective and rationale: Protection of human safety. 8. Relevant documents: Canada Gazette, Part I, 28 October 1995. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: Not stated. 10. Final date for comments: 26 January 1995. (331)

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