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.