National Capital Commission Animal Regulations (SOR/2002-164)

10 (1) This section applies only to keepers of hoofed animals.

(2) No person shall have a hoofed animal on any area of unleased land except in a location that the Commission has, in accordance with subsection 27(2), marked by signs as a location where hoofed animals are permitted.

(3) No person shall have a hoofed animal in a location referred to in subsection (2) unless it is restrained in one of the following ways:

• (a) it is restrained by reins that are held by a person;

• (b) it is restrained by a lead

  • (i) that is held by a person, or is securely attached to an object that cannot be displaced by the animal, and

  • (ii) that is not more than two metres (6.5 feet) long; or

• (c) it is in a container from which it cannot escape.

(4) Despite any other provision of these Regulations, the keeper of a hoofed animal is authorized to cross, with their hoofed animal, any area of unleased land where a hoofed animal is otherwise prohibited under these Regulations if the animal is restrained in accordance with subsection (3) and the animal is on a trail where the presence of that animal is permitted.