Certainly. Thank you very much.
There are two reasons for that amendment. The first reason is that this is the historical or traditional way of bringing this type of change into effect with a bill or a law.
Second, what's being proposed here is that the coming into force of the act be aligned with the coming into force of changed regulations. As I mentioned in my presentation, non-corrective contact lenses do not have any effectiveness with respect to correction of vision. Currently, the medical devices regulations require manufacturers to submit evidence of effectiveness. So bringing the bill into effect before the regulations can be amended would therefore make all non-corrective contact lenses unable to comply with the medical devices regulations, and I don't think that's the policy intent here of putting forward the bill.
We would still maintain, under the medical devices regulations, stringent requirements for safety, for the quality, and for the auditing of manufacturing facilities that produce these types of products, but the proposed revision and the wording would better align and synchronize the coming into force of the act with the coming into force of regulations that would exempt non-corrective lenses from the effectiveness requirements.