CANADA: DOOR LOCKS, DOOR RETENTION COMPONENTS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif.96.151. 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. Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification can be indicated if different from above: 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): Door locks and door retention components. 5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Proposed Amendment to the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (pages 1427-1431). 6. Description of content: Section 206 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations specifies the design and performance standards governing side-door latches, hinges, and locks. At the time this Regulation first came into force, hatchbacks, station wagons, and vans were a smaller proportion of Canada's vehicle fleet than they are today, and no requirements were applied to latches, hinges, and locks of rear doors. With the growing popularity of motor vehicles that open at the rear and a high probability of death associated with being ejected from a vehicle, it has become necessary to extend the requirements of Section 206 to the latches, hinges and locks of hatches, tailgates, and rear doors. This amendment would apply to passenger cars, station wagons, and vans with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 4,536 kg. 7. Objective and rationale: Protection of human safety. 8. Relevant documents: Canada Gazette, Part I, 11 May 1996. 9. Proposed date of adoption: 1 September 1997. Proposed date of entry into force: 1 September 1997. 10. Final date for comments: 10 July 1996. (159)

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