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Quebec's new extended warranty disclosure rules, in force October 2026

Quebec's consumer protection reform against planned obsolescence — Bill 29 — is being phased in over several years. The piece that matters most for anyone shopping for an extended warranty, including on a used car, takes effect October 5, 2026: a mandatory, prescribed disclosure a merchant must hand over before offering one at all.

What's actually changing on October 5, 2026

A regulation amending Quebec's Regulation respecting the application of the Consumer Protection Act — adopted by the Quebec government in December 2025 and published in the Gazette officielle du Québec on December 17, 2025 — implements the next phase of Bill 29 (passed in 2023). It sets prescribed statutory "warranty of good working order" durations for a defined list of new household goods, and, separately, creates a mandatory pre-sale disclosure obligation on any merchant before offering a consumer an extended (additional) warranty on top of the legal warranty that already applies automatically. Both pieces take effect the same day: October 5, 2026.

Four different notices — one written specifically for a used vehicle

The regulation doesn't use one generic disclosure form. It prescribes four distinct versions of the compulsory paper notice, each tailored to a different situation: goods covered by the new statutory warranty of good working order, used automobiles, used motorcycles, and a catch-all version for other goods. A merchant must hand the consumer a paper document containing only the prescribed notice — before offering the extended warranty, not folded into the sale paperwork afterward. That a used-vehicle extended warranty gets its own dedicated notice, distinct from an appliance extended warranty, is the detail most likely to matter to someone buying a used car in Quebec specifically.

What happens if a merchant skips the disclosure

Quebec's remedy is specific, not just a general "unfair practice" penalty: if a merchant doesn't comply with the disclosure requirement, the consumer may cancel the extended-warranty contract, without fee or penalty, at any time during the first year of the contract, and the merchant must return everything collected under it. That mirrors the same fee-free, full-refund cancellation logic already reflected in point 2 of our standard.

Worth knowing: Quebec already regulates used-vehicle warranties separately

This isn't Quebec's first move on used-vehicle warranty coverage specifically. A separate, earlier phase of the same reform, in force since April 5, 2024, already extended Quebec's existing statutory "legal warranty of good working order" for used vehicles sold by a dealer — a tiered system based on the vehicle's age and mileage at sale — to cover vehicles up to seven years old or 120,000 km, up from a narrower band before. That legal warranty is separate from, and predates, the October 2026 extended-warranty disclosure rule described above; the two are easy to conflate but address different things — one is automatic minimum coverage on the used car itself, the other is what a merchant has to tell you before selling you something extra on top of it.