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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1990, c. 21, s. 2
- 1994, c. 38, s. 25
- 1995, c. 40, s. 54
- 1997, c. 6, s. 67
- 2001, c. 4, s. 173(F)
- 2012, c. 24, s. 93
- 2015, c. 2, s. 84
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.
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