16 CFR § 1700.4 - Effective date of standards.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t16/s1700.4"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "16 CFR § 1700.4 - Effective date of standards."
title_number: 16
title_name: "Commercial Practices"
section_number: "1700.4"
section_name: "Effective date of standards."
chapter_name: "CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION"
subchapter_number: "E"
subchapter_name: "POISON PREVENTION PACKAGING ACT OF 1970 REGULATIONS"
part_number: "1700"
part_name: "POISON PREVENTION PACKAGING"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "15 U.S.C. 1471-76. Secs. 1700.1 and 1700.14 also issued under 15 U.S.C. 2079(a)."
regulatory_source: "38 FR 21247, Aug. 7, 1973, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1700"
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# 1700.4 Effective date of standards.
(a) The FR document promulgating a regulation establishing a child protection packaging standard shall indicate the standard's effective date. Section 9 of the act specifies that the effective date shall not be sooner than 180 days or later than 1 year from the date the standard is promulgated in the *Federal Register* unless the Commission, for good cause found, determines that an earlier effective date is in the public interest and publishes in the *Federal Register* the reason for such finding, in which case such earlier effective date shall apply.
(b) Upon becoming effective, a child protection packaging standard shall apply only to household substances packaged on and after its effective date.