Canada
Practice Relating to Rule 79. Weapons Primarily Injuring by Non-Detectable Fragments
Canada’s LOAC Manual (1999) provides: “Weapons that cause injury by the use of fragments undetectable by X-ray in the human body are prohibited.”
Canada’s LOAC Manual (2001) states in its chapter entitled “Restrictions on the use of weapons”: “Weapons that cause injury by the use of fragments undetectable by X-ray in the human body are prohibited.”
Upon ratification of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, Canada stated:
With respect to [the 1980] Protocol I [to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons], it is the understanding of the Government of Canada that the use of plastics or similar materials for detonators or other weapons parts not designed to cause injury is not prohibited.