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Health of Animals Regulations

Version of section 141 from 2020-02-20 to 2024-03-06:

  •  (1) No person shall load, confine or transport livestock, camelids or cervids of eight days of age or less in or unload such an animal from a conveyance or container or cause one to be so loaded, confined, transported or unloaded, unless

    • (a) the animal is loaded and unloaded individually without having to negotiate any ramps within the conveyance;

    • (b) sufficient space is provided to allow the animal to lie down without lying on top of another animal;

    • (c) measures are taken that are necessary to prevent the animal’s suffering, injury or death during loading, confinement, transport and unloading;

    • (d) the animal is segregated from animals that are not livestock, camelids or cervids of eight days of age or less;

    • (e) the expected period of time between the beginning of the animal’s loading and the end of the animal’s unloading is not longer than 12 hours;

    • (f) stops during transport are made only to load other livestock, camelids or cervids of eight days of age or less; and

    • (g) the animal is transported to a final destination that is other than an assembly centre.

  • (2) No person shall reload an animal referred to in subsection (1) after it has been unloaded at its final destination.

  • (3) Paragraph (1)(d) does not apply to livestock, camelids or cervids of eight days of age or less who are loaded, confined or transported in or unloaded from a conveyance or container with their dam if to do so is unlikely to cause either animal suffering, injury or death.

  • SOR/80-428, s. 12
  • SOR/2019-38, s. 2

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