Health of Animals Act — H-3.3 64
Regulations — generally 64 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the purpose of protecting human and animal health through the control or elimination of diseases and toxic substances and generally for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act, including regulations (a) prohibiting or regulating the importation, exportation and possession of animals and things in order to prevent the introduction of any vector, disease or toxic substance into Canada or into another country from Canada; (b) for subjecting animals and things that may transmit a disease or toxic substance to quarantine or requiring their destruction on importation into Canada and for requiring the disposal on importation into Canada of things that may transmit a disease or toxic substance; (c) requiring proof of the fact that animals imported into or passing through Canada have not been brought from any place where there was, at the time of their embarkation, a disease or toxic substance; (d) prohibiting or regulating the importation of garbage into Canada and regulating the handling and disposal of garbage imported into Canada; (e) governing the use of food lockers on ships in Canadian waters in order to prevent the introduction of any disease or toxic substance into Canada; (f) for controlling or eradicating, or preventing the spread of, vectors, diseases and toxic substances and for quarantining, segregating, treating or disposing of, or for dealing generally with, animals or things that (i) are, or are suspected of being, affected or contaminated by a disease or toxic substance, (ii) have been in contact with or in close proximity to animals or things that were, or are suspected of having been, affected or contaminated by a disease or toxic substance at the time of contact or close proximity, or (iii) are, or are suspected of being, vectors, the causative agents of disease or toxic substances; (g) for segregating and confining animals within certain limits, establishing areas of inspection or quarantine and establishing eradication areas where animals may be inspected, segregated and tested for any disease or toxic substance; (h) prohibiting or regulating the movement in Canada of (i) animals, animal products, animal by-products, vectors, the causative agents of disease, animal food, hay, straw and fodder, and (ii) things that are used in respect of animals and that may be affected or contaminated by a disease or toxic substance; (i) for the humane treatment of animals and generally (i) governing the care, handling and disposition of animals, (ii) governing the manner in which animals are transported within, into or out of Canada, and (iii) providing for the treatment or disposal of animals that are not cared for, handled or transported in a humane manner; (j) for declaring as infected, and constituting as an infected place, any airport, market, pen, railway yard, stockyard, conveyance or wharf on or in which any animal, animal product, animal by-product, animal food, hay, straw or fodder, or any other thing used in respect of animals, is exposed for sale or is placed for the purpose of transit; (k) prohibiting or regulating the movement of persons and conveyances within, into or out of infected places; (l) for purifying any place or thing that is likely to contain a vector or be contaminated by any disease or toxic substance; (m) for causing or requiring notice to be given of the appearance of any disease or toxic substance among animals; (n) prohibiting or regulating the holding of markets, fairs, exhibitions or sales of animals; (o) for exempting any disease or toxic substance from the operation of any of the provisions of this Act or any regulation, for the imposition of terms and conditions governing the exemption and for otherwise dealing with the disease or toxic substance; (o.1) exempting, with or without conditions, any animal or thing, or a person or activity in respect of an animal or thing, from the application of this Act