Health of Animals Regulations (C.R.C., c. 296)

139. (1) No person shall beat an animal being loaded or unloaded in a way likely to cause injury or undue suffering to it.

(2) No person shall load or unload, or cause to be loaded or unloaded, an animal in a way likely to cause injury or undue suffering to it.

(3) Every ramp, gangway, chute, box or other apparatus used by a carrier in loading or unloading animals shall be so maintained and used as not to cause injury or undue suffering to animals and where livestock is loaded or unloaded by a ramp, gangway, chute or other apparatus, the slope shall not be greater than 45 degrees.

(4) Every ramp and gangway used by a carrier in loading or unloading animals shall have sides of sufficient strength and height to prevent animals from falling off the ramp or gangway.

(5) Every ramp used by a carrier in loading or unloading animals shall be so placed that no unprotected gap exists between the ramp or either side thereof and the railway car, motor vehicle, vessel or aircraft.

(6) Subject to subsection (7), every motor vehicle and aircraft in which livestock is transported shall be provided by the carrier with a loading gate or chute that is

• (a) fitted with safe and secure footholds; and

• (b) suitable for the loading and unloading of livestock.

(7) Subsection (6) does not apply to an aircraft equipped for the loading of livestock in containers.

140. (1) No person shall load or cause to be loaded any animal in any railway car, motor vehicle, aircraft, vessel, crate or container if, by so loading, that railway car, motor vehicle, aircraft, vessel, crate or container is crowded to such an extent as to be likely to cause injury or undue suffering to any animal therein.

(2) No person shall transport or cause to be transported any animal in any railway car, motor vehicle, aircraft, vessel, crate or container that is crowded to such an extent as to be likely to cause injury or undue suffering to any animal therein.

141. (1) Subject to this section, no person shall load on any railway car, motor vehicle, aircraft or vessel and no carrier shall transport animals of different species or of substantially different weight or age unless those animals are segregated.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a female animal and its suckling offspring.

(3) Every cow, sow or mare with its suckling offspring shall be segregated from all other animals during transport.

(4) Animals of the same species that are incompatible by nature shall be segregated during transport.

(5) Groups of bulls, de-tusked boars, rams and goat bucks, if mature, shall be segregated from all other animals during transport.

(6) Every mature boar that has not been de-tusked and every mature stallion shall be segregated from all other animals during transport.

(7) An equine shall, unless its hind feet are unshod, be segregated from other equines during transport.

(8) Every equine over 14 hands in height shall be segregated from all other animals during transport by air.

(9) Every mature bull shall be securely tied during transport by air.

(10) Every horse shall be segregated from all other animals during transport by sea.