Health of Animals Act — H-3.3 2
Definitions 2 (1) In this Act, analyst means a person designated as an analyst pursuant to section 32; ( analyste ) animal includes an embryo and a fertilized egg or ovum; ( animal ) animal by-product includes blood or any of its components, bones, bristles, feathers, flesh, hair, hides, hoofs, horns, offal, skins and wool, and any thing containing any of those things; ( sous-produit animal ) animal deadyard means a place where animal carcasses, animal by-products or disabled or diseased animals are brought when they are not to be prepared for human consumption; ( atelier d’équarrissage ) animal food means any thing that is capable of being a nutriment for animals and includes any of the constituent elements of an animal ration; ( aliments pour animaux ) animal product includes cream, eggs, milk, non-fertilized ova and semen; ( produit animal ) Assessor means the Assessor or any Deputy Assessor appointed under Part II of the Pesticide Residue Compensation Act ; ( évaluateur ) conveyance means any aircraft, carriage, motor vehicle, trailer, railway car, vessel, cargo container or other contrivance used to move persons, animals or things; ( véhicule ) customs officer means a person employed in the administration and enforcement of the Customs Act and includes any member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; ( agent des douanes ) disease includes (a) a reportable disease and any other disease that may affect an animal or that may be transmitted by an animal to a person, and (b) the causative agent of any such disease; ( maladie ) dispose includes slaughter or otherwise destroy, bury or render; ( Version anglaise seulement ) document means anything on which information that is capable of being understood by a person, or read by a computer or other device, is recorded or marked; ( document ) hatchery means, subject to any regulations made under subsection (2), a place where eggs are incubated or chicks are hatched; ( couvoir ) infected place means a place that is constituted to be an infected place under section 22 or 23 or under the regulations; ( lieu contaminé ) inspector means a person designated as an inspector pursuant to section 32; ( inspecteur ) justice means a justice as defined in section 2 of the Criminal Code ; ( juge de paix ) Minister means the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food; ( ministre ) officer means a person designated as an officer pursuant to section 32, but does not include an analyst; ( agent d’exécution ) peace officer means a peace officer as defined in section 2 of the Criminal Code ; ( agent de la paix ) penalty means an administrative monetary penalty imposed under the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act for a violation; ( sanction ) place includes a conveyance; ( lieu ) prescribed means prescribed by regulation; ( Version anglaise seulement ) rendering plant means a place (a) where animal by-products are prepared or treated for use in, or converted into, fertilizers, animal food, fats or oils, other than fats or oils used for human consumption, (b) where a substance resulting from a process mentioned in paragraph (a) is stored, packed or marked, or (c) from which a substance resulting from a process mentioned in paragraph (a) is shipped; ( usine de traitement ) reportable means prescribed as reportable by the Minister; ( déclarable ) toxic substance means a substance prescribed as toxic by the Minister; ( substance toxique ) Tribunal means the Review Tribunal continued by subsection 27(1) of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act ; ( Commission ) vector means an animal that has the potential to transmit a disease, directly or indirectly, from one animal or its excreta to another animal; ( vecteur ) veterinary biologic means a thing that is manufactured, sold or represented for use in restoring, correcting or modifying organic functions in animals or for use in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of a disease, disorder or abnor