Health of Animals Regulations

41 (1) A person may import into Canada from the United States an animal by-product, manure or a thing containing an animal by-product or manure, other than a thing described in section 45, 46, 47.1, 49, 50, 51, 51.2 or 53, if Revenue Canada, Customs determines that the country of origin is the United States.

(2) A person may import into Canada from a country or a part of a country that is not the United States an animal by-product, manure or a thing containing an animal by-product or manure, other than a thing described in section 45, 46, 47, 47.1, 49, 50, 51, 51.2 or 53, if

• (a) the country of origin or part of such a country is designated as free of any reportable disease or any other serious epizootic disease to which the species that produced the thing is susceptible and which can be transmitted by the thing; and

• (b) the person produces a certificate signed by an official of the government of the country of origin that shows that the country of origin or part of such a country is the designated country or part thereof referred to in paragraph (a).