MiscellaneousCanada: Amendments to the Motor Vehicle Safety Act – recall information

July 4, 20230

Canada: Amendments to the Motor Vehicle Safety Act – recall information

 

The proposed regulatory amendments would require companies that issue a safety recall to also publish safety recall-related information on their website, in a timely manner, with the goal of increasing recall awareness and completion. The proposed amendments would standardize the availability and the type of information, provide a timeline by which such information must be made available, and facilitate Canadians’ ability to find recall information — especially in cases where information about the current vehicle or vehicle equipment owner is missing, erroneous, or incomplete.

The proposed amendments would also require vehicle companies designated by the Minister of Transport (the Minister) to include an online search tool that would provide safety recall information that is specific to one vehicle, using the unique 17-character vehicle identification number (VIN). In other words, the proposed amendments would require that certain companies provide a VIN lookup tool on their websites.

Publishing safety recalls online will make safety recall information available faster and more accessible for vehicle owners, vehicle equipment owners and prescribed persons, as well as for the general public. The increased accessibility of recall information would also assist international partners for the purpose of identifying imported vehicles from Canada with an outstanding safety recall.

It is expected that the proposed amendments would lead to the correction of a greater number of safety recalls and benefit the safety of all Canadians. The proposed amendments are intended to directly influence recall completion rates and to reduce losses from property damage, injuries and death resulting from unresolved vehicle and vehicle equipment defects and non-compliances.

A full notice of proposed draft can be found HERE.

To find out more about vehicle regulations in Canada, please contact the Institute for Global Automotive Regulatory Research directly.

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