Health of Animals Regulations

141 (1) Subject to this section, no person shall load on any railway car, motor vehicle, aircraft or vessel and no carrier shall transport animals of different species or of substantially different weight or age unless those animals are segregated.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a female animal and its suckling offspring.

(3) Every cow, sow or mare with its suckling offspring shall be segregated from all other animals during transport.

(4) Animals of the same species that are incompatible by nature shall be segregated during transport.

(5) Groups of bulls, de-tusked boars, rams and goat bucks, if mature, shall be segregated from all other animals during transport.

(6) Every mature boar that has not been de-tusked and every mature stallion shall be segregated from all other animals during transport.

(7) An equine shall, unless its hind feet are unshod, be segregated from other equines during transport.

(8) Every equine over 14 hands in height shall be segregated from all other animals during transport by air.

(9) Every mature bull shall be securely tied during transport by air.

(10) Every horse shall be segregated from all other animals during transport by sea.