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Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act — C-16.5 13
President’s authority to appoint employees 13 (1) The President has the authority to appoint the employees of the Agency. Terms and conditions of employment (2) The President may set the terms and conditions of employment for employees of the Agency and assign duties to them. Enforcement officers (3) The President may designate any person or class of persons as inspectors, analysts, graders, veterinary inspectors or other officers for the enforcement or administration of any Act or provision that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of section 11, in respect of any matter referred to in the designation.
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Contracts and agreements 14 (1) The Agency may enter into contracts, memoranda of understanding and other agreements with a department or agency of the Government of Canada or the government of a province and with any other person or organization in the name of Her Majesty in right of Canada or in its own name. International arrangements (2) In exercising its responsibilities, the Agency may negotiate and enter into arrangements for the implementation of technical requirements for the international movement of products or other things regulated under an Act or provision that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of section 11.
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Legal proceedings 15 Actions, suits or other legal proceedings in respect of any right or obligation acquired or incurred by the Agency, whether in its own name or in the name of Her Majesty in right of Canada, may be brought or taken by or against the Agency in the name of the Agency in any court that would have jurisdiction if the Agency were not an agent of Her Majesty.
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Choice of service providers 16 Notwithstanding section 9 of the Department of Public Works and Government Services Act , the Agency may, with the approval of the Governor in Council given on the recommendation of the Treasury Board, procure goods and services, including legal services, from outside the federal public administration. 1997, c. 6, s. 16; 2003, c. 22, s. 224(E)
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Intellectual property 17 The Agency may license, sell or otherwise make available any patent, copyright, industrial design, trademark or other similar property right that is vested in Her Majesty in right of Canada under any Act or provision that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of section 11. 1997, c. 6, s. 17 2014, c. 20, s. 366(E)
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Interim injunction 18 The Agency may apply to a judge of a court of competent jurisdiction for an interim injunction enjoining any person from contravening an Act or provision that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of section 11, whether or not a prosecution has been instituted in respect of that contravention.
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Recall order 19 (1) Where the Minister believes on reasonable grounds that a product regulated under an Act or provision that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of section 11 poses a risk to public, animal or plant health, the Minister may, by notice served on any person selling, marketing or distributing the product, order that the product be recalled or sent to a place designated by the Minister. Contravention of recall order (2) Any person who contravenes a recall order referred to in subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months or to both. Notification of order (3) For greater certainty, a recall order is not a statutory instrument for the purposes of the Statutory Instruments Act , but no person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2) unless the person was notified of the order.
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Regulations 19.1 The Governor in Council may make regulations respecting the recall of products regulated under an Act or provision that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of section 11. 2012, c. 24, s. 105
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Review officer 19.2 The Minister may designate as review officers any individual or class of individuals that are qualified to conduct reviews under section 19.3. 2012, c. 24, s. 105
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Request for review 19.3 (1) On the request of a prescribed person in relation to a prescribed decision made under an Act or provision that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of section 11, a review officer must conduct a review of the decision in the prescribed manner subject to the regulations and the other provisions of this section. Contents of request (2) The request must be made in the prescribed manner, contain the prescribed information and be made in the prescribed time after the making of the decision. Ineligibility (3) The review officer must be a person other than the one who made the decision. Restriction (4) The review is restricted to questions of fact alone or questions of mixed law and fact. No authority to review (5) The review is not to be conducted if the request does not comply with subsection (2) or is frivolous, vexatious or not made in good faith. Reasons for refusal (6) If subsection (5) applies, the person who made the request is to be, without delay, notified in writing of the reasons for the review not being conducted. Decision not stayed (7) The conduct of the review does not stay the decision unless the review officer decides otherwise. Decision on completion of review (8) On completion of the review, the review officer must confirm, vary or cancel the decision. Notice (9) The person who made the request must, without delay, be notified in writing of the reasons for the review officer’s decision under subsection (8). Regulations (10) The Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing anything that by this section is to be prescribed. 2012, c. 24, s. 105
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Federal-provincial agreements 20 The Minister may, with the approval of the Governor in Council given on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, enter into an agreement with one or more provincial governments for the provision of services or the carrying out of activities within the responsibilities of the Agency, in common with those governments.
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Object of agreements 21 The agreement referred to in section 20 may authorize the Minister, jointly with one or more provincial governments, to have a corporation incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act , the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act or an equivalent provincial statute, or to acquire shares or participate in any corporation, in order to implement the agreement. 1997, c. 6, s. 21; 2009, c. 23, s. 318
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Corporate business plan 22 (1) As soon as possible after the Agency is established and at least once every five years after that, the Agency must submit a corporate business plan to the Minister for approval and the Minister must table a copy of the plan in each House of Parliament on any of the first fifteen days on which that House is sitting after the Minister approves the plan. Contents of corporate business plan (2) The corporate business plan must include a statement of (a) the Agency’s objectives for the period to which the plan relates and for each year in that period; (b) the strategies that the Agency intends to use to achieve its objectives, including operational, financial and human resource strategies; (c) the Agency’s expected performance over that period; and (d) the Agency’s operating and capital budgets for each year of that period. Updating of corporate business plan (3) The Agency may update its corporate business plan in its annual report.
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Annual report 23 (1) The President must, before September 30 of each year following the Agency’s first full year of operations, submit an annual report on the operations of the Agency for the preceding year to the Minister and the Minister must table a copy of the report in each House of Parliament on any of the first fifteen days on which that House is sitting after the Minister receives the report. Form and contents (2) The annual report must include (a) the financial statements of the Agency; (b) information about the Agency’s performance with respect to the objectives established in the corporate business plan; and (c) any other information that the Minister or the Treasury Board may require to be included in it. 1997, c. 6, s. 23; 2012, c. 19, s. 186
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Fees for services or use of facilities 24 (1) Subject to the regulations, the Minister may fix the fees to be paid for a service or the use of a facility provided by the Agency. Amount not to exceed cost (2) Fees fixed under subsection (1) may not exceed the cost to Her Majesty in right of Canada of providing the service or the use of the facility.
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Fees for products, rights and privileges 25 Subject to the regulations, the Minister may fix fees in respect of products, rights and privileges provided by the Agency.
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Service Fees Act 25.1 (1) Sections 3 to 15 of the Service Fees Act do not apply to a fee fixed under section 24 for a service or the use of a facility provided by the Agency under the Safe Food for Canadians Act or to a fee fixed under section 25 in respect of products, rights and privileges provided by the Agency under that Act. Application of sections 16 to 18 (2) Despite subsection 22(1) of the Service Fees Act , sections 16 to 18 of that Act apply to a low-materiality fee within the meaning of that Act that is fixed under section 24 for a service or the use of a facility provided by the Agency under the Safe Food for Canadians Act or that is fixed under section 25 in respect of products, rights and privileges provided by the Agency under the Safe Food for Canadians Act . 2014, c. 20, s. 252 2017, c. 20, s. 453 2023, c. 26, s. 278
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Consultation 26 (1) Before fixing a fee under section 24 or 25, the Minister must consult with any persons or organizations that the Minister considers to be interested in the matter. Publication (2) The Minister must publish any fee fixed under section 24 or 25 in the Canada Gazette within thirty days after fixing it. Reference to Committee (3) Any fee fixed under section 24 or 25 stands permanently referred to the Committee referred to in section 19 of the Statutory Instruments Act , to be reviewed and scrutinized as if it were a statutory instrument.
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Regulations 27 The Treasury Board may make regulations for the purposes of sections 24 to 26.
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Collection of fees 28 The Agency may enter into an agreement with any person, provincial government or other authority respecting the collection of fees fixed under this Act or any other Act that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of subsection 11(1) and, notwithstanding subsections 17(1) and (4) of the Financial Administration Act , authorizing that person, government or authority to withhold amounts from those fees.
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Remission of fees 29 (1) The Minister may remit all or part of any fee fixed under section 24 or 25 or under any Act that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of subsection 11(1), and the interest on it. Non-payment of fees (2) The Minister may withdraw or withhold a service, use of a facility, a product or conferral of a right or privilege within the responsibilities of the Agency, from any person who fails to pay the fee fixed for it if, in the Minister’s opinion, it is consistent with public health and safety.
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Expenditure 30 In carrying out its responsibilities, the Agency may spend money that Parliament appropriates to it and revenues received by it through the conduct of its operations, including (a) payments for the sale, exchange, lease, loan, transfer or other disposition of personal or movable property; (a.1) payments for the sale, lease or other disposition or transfer of real or immovable property; (b) fees for the provision of a service or use of a facility or for a product, right or privilege; and (c) refunds of expenditures made in the previous fiscal year.
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Books and records 31 The Agency must keep books of account and records prepared according to generally accepted accounting principles.
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Appropriation Act 32.1 The provisions made by any appropriation Act for the fiscal year in which this section comes into force or a subsequent fiscal year, based on the Estimates for that year, to defray the charges and expenses of the public service of Canada within the Departments of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Fisheries and Oceans and Health in relation to any matter for which the Agency is responsible by virtue of section 11 are deemed to be an amount appropriated for defraying the charges and expenses of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in such amount as the Treasury Board may, on the recommendations of the Ministers of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Fisheries and Oceans and Health, determine.
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Agency employees continued 33 (1) On the coming into force of subsection 13(1), employees deployed to the Agency, or appointed to it by the Public Service Commission, are deemed to have been appointed by the President and continue to be employed by the Agency with the same tenure of office. Pending competitions and appointments (2) On the coming into force of subsection 13(1), a competition being conducted or an appointment being made under the Public Service Employment Act shall continue to be conducted or made as if that section had not come into force.
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Eligibility lists 34 An eligibility list made under the Public Service Employment Act that is valid on the coming into force of subsection 13(1) of this Act continues to be valid for the period provided for by subsection 17(2) of that Act, but that period may not be extended.
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Pending appeals 35 (1) An appeal commenced under section 21 of the Public Service Employment Act and not finally disposed of on the coming into force of subsection 13(1) of this Act shall be dealt with and disposed of in accordance with that Act as if that subsection had not come into force. Other recourse (2) Any recourse commenced under the Public Service Employment Act that has not been finally dealt with on the coming into force of subsection 13(1) of this Act shall be dealt with and disposed of in accordance with that Act as if that subsection had not come into force.
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Designations continued 36 Every inspector, analyst, grader, veterinary inspector or other officer appointed or designated under an Act referred to in section 11 to enforce or administer any Act or provision that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of that section is deemed to be designated by the President under subsection 13(3), according to the terms of the original designation or appointment.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act — C-16.5 Coming into force
Coming into force * 93 This Act, or any provision of this Act, or any provision of any Act enacted or amended by this Act, comes into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council. * [Note: Act, except subsection 13(1) and section 31, in force April 1, 1997, see SI/97-37; subsection 13(1) in force April 1, 1998, see SI/97-122; section 31 in force March 31, 2000, see SI/2000-21.]
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act 202 The obligations under sections 23 and 32 of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act , as those sections read immediately before the day on which this Act receives royal assent, continue to apply in respect of the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2011 but do not apply in respect of any subsequent fiscal year.
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Seized things 74 Sections 28 to 37 apply in respect of any thing seized under the Fish Inspection Act , the Meat Inspection Act or the Canada Agricultural Products Act — or seized under the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act by a person designated as an inspector under the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act for the enforcement of the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act as it relates to food — that had not been returned to any person, released or forfeited, or removed from Canada, before the day on which section 1 comes into force.
Veterans Well-being Act — C-16.8
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
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Short title 1 This Act may be cited as the Veterans Well-being Act . 2005, c. 21, s. 1; 2017, c. 20, s. 270
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rposes of this Act, a member or veteran has neither inflicted wilful self-injury nor engaged in improper conduct by reason only that they receive medical assistance in dying, if the requirement set out in paragraph 241.2(3)(a) of the Criminal Code has been met. Deeming — medical assistance in dying (7) For the purposes of this Act, if a member or a veteran receives medical assistance in dying, that member or veteran is deemed to have died as a result of the illness, disease or disability for which they were determined to be eligible to receive that assistance, in accordance with paragraph 241.2(3)(a) of the Criminal Code . 2005, c. 21, s. 2; 2015, c. 36, s. 206; 2016, c. 3, s. 9, c. 7, s. 97; 2017, c. 20, s. 271 2018, c. 12, s. 123
Veterans Well-being Act — C-16.8 (a)
aggravated by service , in respect of an injury or a disease, means an injury or a disease that has been aggravated, if the aggravation (a) was attributable to or was incurred during special duty service; or (b) arose out of or was directly connected with service in the Canadian Forces. ( due au service )
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Board means the Veterans Review and Appeal Board established by section 4 of the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Act . ( Tribunal )
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Canadian Forces means the armed forces referred to in section 14 of the National Defence Act , and includes any predecessor naval, army or air forces of Canada or Newfoundland. ( Forces canadiennes )
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common-law partner , in relation to a member or a veteran, means a person who is cohabiting with the member or veteran in a conjugal relationship, having so cohabited for a period of at least one year. ( conjoint de fait )
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compensation means any of the following benefits under this Act, namely, an education and training benefit, an education and training completion bonus, an income replacement benefit, a Canadian Forces income support benefit, a critical injury benefit, a disability award, pain and suffering compensation, additional pain and suffering compensation, a death benefit, a clothing allowance, a detention benefit or a caregiver recognition benefit. ( indemnisation )
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dependent child , in relation to a member or a veteran, means their child, or a child of their spouse or common-law partner who is ordinarily residing in the member’s or veteran’s household, who is (a) under the age of 18 years; (b) under the age of 25 years and following a course of instruction approved by the Minister; or (c) over the age of 18 years and prevented by physical or mental incapacity from earning a livelihood, if the incapacity occurred (i) before the child attained the age of 18 years, or (ii) after the age of 18 years and before the age of 25 years while the child was following a course of instruction approved by the Minister. ( enfant à charge )
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disability means the loss or lessening of the power to will and to do any normal mental or physical act. ( invalidité )
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disability award means a disability award paid under section 45, 47 or 48 of this Act as it read immediately before April 1, 2019. ( indemnité d’invalidité )
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medical assistance in dying has the same meaning as in section 241.1 of the Criminal Code . ( aide médicale à mourir )
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medical rehabilitation includes any physical or psychological treatment whose object is to stabilize and restore the basic physical and psychological functions of a person. ( réadaptation médicale )
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member means an officer or a non-commissioned member of the Canadian Forces, as those terms are defined in subsection 2(1) of the National Defence Act . ( militaire )
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Minister means the Minister of Veterans Affairs. ( ministre )
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orphan , in relation to a deceased member or a deceased veteran, means their child, or a child of their survivor who at the time of the member’s or veteran’s death was ordinarily residing in the member’s or veteran’s household, who is (a) under the age of 18 years; (b) under the age of 25 years and following a course of instruction approved by the Minister; or (c) over the age of 18 years and prevented by physical or mental incapacity from earning a livelihood, if the incapacity occurred (i) before the child attained the age of 18 years, or (ii) after the age of 18 years and before the age of 25 years while the child was following a course of instruction approved by the Minister. ( orphelin )
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personal information has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Privacy Act . ( renseignements personnels )
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prescribed means prescribed by regulation.
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psycho-social rehabilitation includes any psychological or social intervention whose object is to restore a person to a state of independent functioning and to facilitate their social adjustment. ( réadaptation psychosociale )
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rehabilitation services means all services related to the medical rehabilitation, psycho-social rehabilitation or vocational rehabilitation of a person. ( services de réadaptation )
Veterans Well-being Act — C-16.8 (a)
service-related injury or disease means an injury or a disease that (a) was attributable to or was incurred during special duty service; or (b) arose out of or was directly connected with service in the Canadian Forces. ( liée au service )
Veterans Well-being Act — C-16.8 (a)
special duty service means service as a member in a special duty area designated under section 69 , or as a member as part of a special duty operation designated under section 70 , during the period in which the designation is in effect. It includes any of the following that occurred during that period but not earlier than September 11, 2001: (a) periods of training for the express purpose of service in that area or as part of that operation, wherever that training takes place; (b) travel to and from the area, the operation or the location of training referred to in paragraph (a); and (c) authorized leave of absence with pay during that service, wherever that leave is taken. ( service spécial )
Veterans Well-being Act — C-16.8 (a)
survivor , in relation to a deceased member or a deceased veteran, means (a) their spouse who was, at the time of the member’s or veteran’s death, residing with the member or veteran; or (b) the person who was, at the time of the member’s or veteran’s death, the member’s or veteran’s common-law partner. ( survivant )
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veteran means a former member. ( vétéran )