Health of Animals Act (S.C. 1990, c. 21)
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Health of Animals Act
S.C. 1990, c. 21
Assented to 1990-06-19
An Act respecting diseases and toxic substances that may affect animals or that may be transmitted by animals to persons, and respecting the protection of animals
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
Short Title
Marginal note:Short title
1 This Act may be cited as the Health of Animals Act.
Interpretation
Marginal note:Definitions
2 (1) In this Act,
- analyst
analyst means a person designated as an analyst pursuant to section 32; (analyste)
- animal
animal includes an embryo and a fertilized egg or ovum; (animal)
- animal by-product
animal by-product includes blood or any of its components, bones, bristles, feathers, flesh, hair, hides, hoofs, horns, offal, skins and wool, and any thing containing any of those things; (sous-produit animal)
- animal deadyard
animal deadyard means a place where animal carcasses, animal by-products or disabled or diseased animals are brought when they are not to be prepared for human consumption; (atelier d’équarrissage)
- animal food
animal food means any thing that is capable of being a nutriment for animals and includes any of the constituent elements of an animal ration; (aliments pour animaux)
- animal product
animal product includes cream, eggs, milk, non-fertilized ova and semen; (produit animal)
- Assessor
Assessor means the Assessor or any Deputy Assessor appointed under Part II of the Pesticide Residue Compensation Act; (évaluateur)
- conveyance
conveyance means any aircraft, carriage, motor vehicle, trailer, railway car, vessel, cargo container or other contrivance used to move persons, animals or things; (véhicule)
- customs officer
customs officer means a person employed in the administration and enforcement of the Customs Act and includes any member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; (agent des douanes)
- disease
disease includes
(a) a reportable disease and any other disease that may affect an animal or that may be transmitted by an animal to a person, and
(b) the causative agent of any such disease; (maladie)
- dispose
dispose includes slaughter or otherwise destroy, bury or render; (Version anglaise seulement)
- document
document means anything on which information that is capable of being understood by a person, or read by a computer or other device, is recorded or marked; (document)
- hatchery
hatchery means, subject to any regulations made under subsection (2), a place where eggs are incubated or chicks are hatched; (couvoir)
- infected place
infected place means a place that is constituted to be an infected place under section 22 or 23 or under the regulations; (lieu contaminé)
- inspector
inspector means a person designated as an inspector pursuant to section 32; (inspecteur)
- justice
justice means a justice as defined in section 2 of the Criminal Code; (juge de paix)
- Minister
Minister means the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food; (ministre)
- officer
officer means a person designated as an officer pursuant to section 32, but does not include an analyst; (agent d’exécution)
- peace officer
peace officer means a peace officer as defined in section 2 of the Criminal Code; (agent de la paix)
- penalty
penalty means an administrative monetary penalty imposed under the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act for a violation; (sanction)
- place
place includes a conveyance; (lieu)
- prescribed
prescribed means prescribed by regulation; (Version anglaise seulement)
- rendering plant
rendering plant means a place
(a) where animal by-products are prepared or treated for use in, or converted into, fertilizers, animal food, fats or oils, other than fats or oils used for human consumption,
(b) where a substance resulting from a process mentioned in paragraph (a) is stored, packed or marked, or
(c) from which a substance resulting from a process mentioned in paragraph (a) is shipped; (usine de traitement)
- reportable
reportable means prescribed as reportable by the Minister; (déclarable)
- toxic substance
toxic substance means a substance prescribed as toxic by the Minister; (substance toxique)
- Tribunal
Tribunal means the Review Tribunal continued by subsection 27(1) of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act; (Commission)
- vector
vector means an animal that has the potential to transmit a disease, directly or indirectly, from one animal or its excreta to another animal; (vecteur)
- veterinary biologic
veterinary biologic means a thing that is manufactured, sold or represented for use in restoring, correcting or modifying organic functions in animals or for use in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of a disease, disorder or abnormal physical state — or its symptoms — in animals and that is
(a) a helminth, protozoa or micro-organism,
(b) a substance or mixture of substances derived from animals, helminths, protozoa, micro-organisms or plants, or
(c) a substance of synthetic origin; (produit biologique vétérinaire)
- veterinary inspector
veterinary inspector means a veterinarian designated as an inspector pursuant to section 32; (vétérinaire-inspecteur)
- violation
violation means
(a) any contravention of any provision of this Act or of a regulation made under this Act, or
(b) any refusal or neglect to perform any duty imposed by or under this Act,
that may be proceeded with in accordance with the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act. (violation)
Marginal note:Ministerial regulations
(2) The Minister may make regulations excluding places from the definition hatchery and prescribing reportable diseases and toxic substances.
Marginal note:Incorporation by reference
(3) Toxic substances may be prescribed
(a) in terms of the quantity or concentration in which substances are contained in other substances; and
(b) by reference to substances specified in any published document, as amended from time to time.
Application
Marginal note:Binding on Her Majesty
3 This Act is binding on Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province.
Marginal note:Limits of ports, etc.
4 The Governor in Council may, by order, define the limits of ports and of other places for the purposes of this Act.
Control of Diseases and Toxic Substances
Notification and Samples
Marginal note:Notification by owner, etc.
5 (1) A person who owns or has the possession, care or control of an animal shall notify the nearest veterinary inspector of the presence of a reportable disease or toxic substance, or any fact indicating its presence, in or around the animal, immediately after the person becomes aware of the presence or fact.
Marginal note:Notification by veterinarian, etc.
(2) Immediately after a person who is a veterinarian or who analyses animal specimens suspects that an animal is affected or contaminated by a reportable disease or toxic substance, the person shall so notify a veterinary inspector.
6 [Repealed, 2015, c. 2, s. 85]
Marginal note:Notice forbidding entry
7 (1) Where
(a) there exists in an area a disease or toxic substance that is capable of affecting animals, and
(b) reasonable steps have been taken by the Minister to
(i) bring the existence of the disease or toxic substance to the attention of persons having the possession, care or control of animals in the area, and
(ii) make those persons aware of the requirements of this subsection,
every person in that area who owns or has the possession, care or control of an animal shall affix at the entrance to the building or other enclosed place in which the animal is kept a notice forbidding entry without the person’s permission.
Marginal note:Notice forbidding entry without permission
(2) A person who owns or has the possession, care or control of an animal shall affix at the entrance to the building or other enclosed place in which the animal is kept a notice forbidding entry without the permission of an inspector or officer where there exists in the area a disease or toxic substance that is capable of affecting the animal and the inspector or officer requires such a notice to be so affixed.
Marginal note:Prohibition
(3) No person shall knowingly enter a building or other enclosed place in contravention of a notice affixed under this section, unless the person has a right of entry or way into the building or place or any part thereof or an inspector or officer has authorized the entry.
Prohibitions
Marginal note:Concealment
8 No person shall conceal the existence of a reportable disease or toxic substance among animals.
Marginal note:Keeping diseased animals
9 No person shall turn out, keep or graze on any undivided or unenclosed land any animal that the person knows is affected or contaminated by, or has been exposed to, any reportable disease or toxic substance.
Marginal note:Bringing diseased animals to market
10 No person shall, without a licence issued by an inspector or officer, bring into any market, fair or other place any animal that is known by the person to be affected or contaminated by, or has been exposed to, any reportable disease or toxic substance.
- 1990, c. 21, s. 10
- 2015, c. 3, s. 100(F)
Marginal note:Selling or disposing of diseased animals
11 No person shall, without a licence issued by an inspector or officer, sell or offer or expose for sale or otherwise transfer the ownership of
(a) any animal or any part of an animal that the person knows is affected or contaminated by, or has been exposed to, any reportable disease or toxic substance, or
(b) any animal product or animal by-product that the person knows was obtained from an animal that was affected or contaminated by, or was exposed to, any reportable disease or toxic substance at the time of its death,
whether or not the person is the owner of the animal, animal product or animal by-product.
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