• 3. (1) It shall be a condition of the registration and operation of an establishment as a registered establishment that the establishment and all animals and meat products in it are subject to this Act and the regulations.

• (2) No person shall operate a registered establishment unless that person has obtained a licence therefor in accordance with the regulations.

4. The meat inspection legend shall be a national trade-mark, and the exclusive property in and, subject to this Act, the right to the use of that trade-mark is hereby declared to be vested in Her Majesty in right of Canada.

5. No person shall, unless authorized by the regulations,

• (a) apply or use the meat inspection legend; or

• (b) advertise or sell or have in his possession for any such purpose anything to which the meat inspection legend is applied or in connection with which the meat inspection legend is used.

6. No person shall

• (a) apply or use any legend, word, mark, symbol or design or any combination thereof that so closely resembles the meat inspection legend as to be likely to be mistaken for it; or

• (b) advertise or sell or have in his possession for any such purpose anything to which there is applied or in connection with which there is used any legend, word, mark, symbol or design or any combination thereof that so closely resembles the meat inspection legend as to be likely to be mistaken for it.

7. No person shall export a meat product out of Canada unless

• (a) it was prepared or stored in a registered establishment that was operated in accordance with this Act and the regulations;

• (b) that person provides an inspector with evidence satisfactory to the Minister that the meat product meets the requirements of the country to which it is being exported; and

• (c) that person obtains a certificate from an inspector authorizing the export of that meat product.

8. No person shall send or convey a meat product from one province to another unless

• (a) it was prepared or stored in a registered establishment that was operated in accordance with this Act and the regulations; and

• (b) it complies with prescribed standards and is packaged and labelled in the manner prescribed.

• 9. (1) No person shall import a meat product into Canada unless

  • (a) at the time it was prepared for export, the country from which it originated and any country in which it was processed had meat inspection systems, those systems and the relevant establishments in those countries were approved in writing by the Minister before that time and the approvals were valid at that time;

  • (b) that person provides an inspector with evidence satisfactory to the Minister that it meets the prescribed standards for imported meat products;

  • (c) it meets the prescribed standards for imported meat products; and

  • (d) it is packaged and labelled in the manner prescribed.

• (2) Every person who imports a meat product into Canada shall, as soon as possible, deliver it, in its imported condition, to a registered establishment for inspection by an inspector.

• (3) No person shall have in his possession an imported meat product that the person knows

  • (a) has been imported into Canada in contravention of subsection (1); or

  • (b) has not been delivered to a registered establishment for inspection as required by subsection (2).