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the Minister or other person, as the case may be, directs, information in relation to animals or things to which this Act or the regulations apply, including information in respect of their movements, events in relation to them and places where they are or were located; (z.32) governing the identification of places in respect of which information is to be provided under regulations made under paragraph (z.31); (z.33) prohibiting or governing the use or disclosure of information provided under regulations made under any of paragraphs (y) to (z.1) and (z.31); (z.4) prescribing any fees or charges, or the manner of calculating any fees or charges, required for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act or the regulations; and (z.5) prescribing anything required by this Act to be prescribed, other than anything to be prescribed by the Minister. Paragraph (1)(a) — designation of disease (1.1) Regulations made under paragraph (1)(a) may, among other things, authorize the Minister to designate, by notice, diseases for the purposes of those regulations. Non-application of Statutory Instruments Act (1.2) The Statutory Instruments Act does not apply in respect of a notice given by the Minister under a regulation made under paragraph (1)(a). Paragraph (1)(a) — importation of animals or things (1.3) Regulations made under paragraph (1)(a) that regulate the importation of animals or things may regulate those animals or things after their importation. Paragraph (1)(z.3) (1.4) Regulations made under paragraph (1)(z.3) may, among other things, require persons who conduct any activity regulated under this Act and who become aware that an animal by-product, an animal food, an animal product, a product of a rendering plant or a veterinary biologic presents a risk of harm to human or animal health or the environment or does not meet the requirements of the regulations to provide written notice to that effect to the Minister or an inspector or officer. Regulations respecting birds (2) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the purposes of maintaining or improving the quality of bird stock and of controlling or eliminating diseases and toxic substances among birds, including regulations (a) regulating the production, marketing and distribution of birds and hatching eggs; (b) prohibiting or regulating the movement of birds and hatching eggs; (c) requiring hatchery operators to register with the Minister annually the names and addresses of persons who act as agents in the marketing of birds produced at the operators’ hatcheries; (d) prescribing the types, sizes, specifications and labelling of packages used by hatchery operators for the marketing of chicks; and (e) governing sanitation in or about hatcheries. Interpretation (3) Subsection (2) shall not be construed so as to limit the application of subsection (1) in respect of birds. Definitions of bird and chick (4) For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), bird means a bird that is or has been in captivity and chick means a bird that is less than seventy-two hours old. 1990, c. 21, s. 64; 1993, c. 34, s. 76; 2012, c. 19, s. 512(F), c. 24, s. 94; 2015, c. 2, s. 95