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An Act to amend the Hazardous Products Act and the Canada Labour Code, to enact the Hazardous Materials Information Review Act and to amend other Acts in relation thereto — H-2.71 Coming into force
Coming into force * 58 This Act or any provision thereof, or any provision of the Hazardous Products Act or the Canada Labour Code as amended or enacted by this Act, shall come into force on October 31, 1988 or on such earlier day or days as may be fixed by proclamation. * [Note: Part III in force October 1, 1987, see SI/87-220.]
Department of Health Act — H-3.2
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 Department of Health Act .
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Department established 2 (1) There is hereby established a department of the Government of Canada, called the Department of Health, over which the Minister of Health, appointed by commission under the Great Seal, shall preside. Minister (2) The Minister holds office during pleasure and has the management and direction of the Department.
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Deputy head 3 The Governor in Council may appoint an officer, called the Deputy Minister of Health, to hold office during pleasure and to be the deputy head of the Department.
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Powers, duties and functions 4 (1) The powers, duties and functions of the Minister extend to and include all matters over which Parliament has jurisdiction relating to the promotion and preservation of the health of the people of Canada not by law assigned to any other department, board or agency of the Government of Canada. Particulars (2) Without restricting the generality of subsection (1), the Minister’s powers, duties and functions relating to health include the following matters: (a) the administration of such Acts of Parliament and of orders or regulations of the Government of Canada as are not by law assigned to any other department of the Government of Canada or any minister of that Government relating in any way to the health of the people of Canada; (a.1) the promotion and preservation of the physical, mental and social well-being of the people of Canada; (b) the protection of the people of Canada against risks to health and the spreading of diseases; (c) investigation and research into public health, including the monitoring of diseases; (d) the establishment and control of safety standards and safety information requirements for consumer products and of safety information requirements for products intended for use in the workplace; (e) the protection of public health on railways, ships, aircraft and all other methods of transportation, and their ancillary services; (f) the promotion and preservation of the health of the public servants and other employees of the Government of Canada; (g) the enforcement of any rules or regulations made by the International Joint Commission, promulgated pursuant to the treaty between the United States of America and His Majesty, King Edward VII, relating to boundary waters and questions arising between the United States and Canada, in so far as they relate to public health; (h) subject to the Statistics Act , the collection, analysis, interpretation, publication and distribution of information relating to public health; and (i) cooperation with provincial authorities with a view to the coordination of efforts made or proposed for preserving and improving public health.
Department of Health Act — H-3.2 4.1
Portfolio of the Minister — coordination and strategic priorities 4.1 The Minister shall coordinate the activities of, and establish strategic priorities for, any board or agency for which the Minister is responsible and may, subject to any terms and conditions that the Minister considers appropriate, delegate those powers, duties and functions to the Deputy Minister of Health. 2006, c. 5, s. 21
Department of Health Act — H-3.2 4.2
Services between the Department and boards or agencies 4.2 (1) The Department may provide services to, and receive services from, any board or agency for which the Minister is responsible and any of those boards or agencies may also provide services to each other. Fees for services (2) The Minister may fix the fees to be paid for services provided by the Minister or the Department to any board or agency for which the Minister is responsible and any of those boards or agencies may fix the fees to be paid for services provided to the Minister, the Department or to each other, despite subsection 6(1). Amounts charged (3) The amounts to be recovered for services provided under subsection (1) and the manner of calculating the amounts are subject to the approval of the Treasury Board and the amount charged for a service may not exceed the cost of providing the service. Amounts received may be spent (4) Subject to any conditions imposed by the Treasury Board, any amounts received by the Department or a board or agency for services provided under subsection (1) may be expended, in the case of the Department, for any purpose of the Department, or, in the case of a board or agency, for any purpose of the board or agency. 2006, c. 5, s. 21
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Inspectors and analysts 5 The Minister may designate any person to be an inspector or an analyst for the purposes of any Act for which the Minister has responsibility and sections 22 to 29 and 35 of the Food and Drugs Act apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to the persons designated pursuant to this section.
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Fees for services or use of facilities 6 (1) The Minister may, subject to any regulations that the Treasury Board may make for the purposes of this section, fix the fees to be paid for a service or the use of a facility provided by the Minister, the Department or any board or agency of the Government of Canada for which the Minister has responsibility. Amount not to exceed cost (2) Fees for a service or the use of a facility that are 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 7 The Minister may, subject to any regulations that the Treasury Board may make for the purposes of this section, fix fees in respect of products, rights and privileges provided by the Minister, the Department or any board or agency of the Government of Canada for which the Minister has responsibility.
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Fees in respect of regulatory processes, etc. 8 (1) The Minister may, subject to any regulations that the Treasury Board may make for the purposes of this section, fix fees in respect of regulatory processes or approvals provided by the Minister, the Department or any board or agency of the Government of Canada for which the Minister has responsibility. Amount (2) Fees that are fixed under subsection (1) shall in the aggregate not exceed an amount sufficient to compensate Her Majesty in right of Canada for any reasonable outlays incurred by Her Majesty for the purpose of providing the regulatory processes or approvals.
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Consultation 9 (1) Before fixing a fee under section 6, 7 or 8, the Minister shall consult with such persons or organizations as the Minister considers to be interested in the matter. Publication (2) A fee that is fixed under section 6, 7 or 8 shall be published, within thirty days after it is fixed, in the Canada Gazette and by such appropriate electronic or other means that the Treasury Board may authorize by regulation. Reference to Scrutiny Committee (3) Any fee fixed under section 6, 7 or 8 shall stand 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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Power to make regulations 10 The Treasury Board may make regulations for the purposes of sections 6 to 9.
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Regulations 11 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations to give effect to and carry out the objects of this Act. Punishment (2) Every person who contravenes a regulation is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Department of Health Act — H-3.2 11.1
Interim orders 11.1 (1) The Minister may make an interim order that contains any provision that may be contained in a regulation made under section 11 if the Minister believes that immediate action is required to deal with a significant risk, direct or indirect, to health or safety. Cessation of effect (2) An interim order has effect from the time that it is made but ceases to have effect on the earliest of (a) 14 days after it is made, unless it is approved by the Governor in Council, (b) the day on which it is repealed, (c) the day on which a regulation made under section 11, that has the same effect as the interim order, comes into force, and (d) one year after the interim order is made or any shorter period that may be specified in the interim order. Contravention of unpublished order (3) No person shall be convicted of an offence consisting of a contravention of an interim order that, at the time of the alleged contravention, had not been published in the Canada Gazette unless it is proved that, at the time of the alleged contravention, the person had been notified of the interim order or reasonable steps had been taken to bring the purport of the interim order to the notice of those persons likely to be affected by it. Exemption from Statutory Instruments Act (4) An interim order (a) is exempt from the application of sections 3, 5 and 11 of the Statutory Instruments Act ; and (b) shall be published in the Canada Gazette within 23 days after it is made. Deeming (5) For the purpose of any provision of this Act other than this section, any reference to regulations made under this Act is deemed to include interim orders, and any reference to a regulation made under a specified provision of this Act is deemed to include a reference to the portion of an interim order containing any provision that may be contained in a regulation made under the specified provision. Tabling of order (6) A copy of each interim order must be tabled in each House of Parliament within 15 days after it is made. House not sitting (7) In order to comply with subsection (6), the interim order may be sent to the Clerk of the House if the House is not sitting. 2004, c. 15, s. 34
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Provincial or municipal boards not affected 12 Nothing in this Act or the regulations authorizes the Minister or any officer or employee of the Department to exercise any jurisdiction or control over any health authority operating under the laws of any province.
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Positions 13 (1) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting the status of an employee who, immediately before the coming into force of this subsection, occupied (a) a position in the public service of Canada in the Department of National Health and Welfare, other than in a portion referred to in clause (a)(i)(B) of Order in Council P.C. 1993-1488 of June 25, 1993, registered as SI/93-142, or in clause (a)(i)(B) of Order in Council P.C. 1993-1489 of June 25, 1993, registered as SI/93-143, (b) a position in that portion of the public service of Canada in the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs referred to in Order in Council P.C. 1993-1491 of June 25, 1993, registered as SI/93-145, and known as the Product Safety Branch, or (c) a position in those portions of the public service of Canada known as the Family Violence Prevention Division, the Children’s Bureau and attendant Brighter Futures programs, the Community Action Program for Children, HIV/AIDS Research and Development and the Seniors Independence Research Program, and referred to in Order in Council P.C. 1993-1667 of August 11, 1993, registered as SI/93-167, except that the employee shall, on the coming into force of this subsection, occupy that position in the Department of Health. Definition of employee (2) In this section, employee has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Public Service Employment Act .
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Transfer of appropriations 14 Any amount appropriated, for the fiscal year in which this section comes into force, by an appropriation Act based on the Estimates for that year for defraying the charges and expenses of the public service of Canada within the Department of National Health and Welfare and that, on the day on which this section comes into force, is unexpended is deemed, on that day, to be an amount appropriated for defraying the charges and expenses of the Department of Health.
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Transfer of powers, duties and functions 15 (1) Wherever, under any Act of Parliament, any instrument made under an Act of Parliament or any order, contract, lease, licence or other document, any power, duty or function is vested in or may be exercised or performed by any of the persons referred to in subsection (2) in relation to any matter to which the powers, duties and functions of the Minister of Health extend by virtue of this Act, that power, duty or function is vested in or may be exercised or performed by the Minister of Health, the Deputy Minister of Health or the appropriate officer of the Department of Health, as the case may be, unless the Governor in Council by order designates another Minister, Deputy Minister or officer of the public service of Canada to exercise that power or perform that duty or function. Persons (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the persons are (a) the Minister of National Health and Welfare and the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs; (b) the Deputy Minister of National Health and Welfare and the Deputy Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs; and (c) any officer of the Department of National Health and Welfare and the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs.
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32 (1) [Amendments] (2) Every reference to the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs in any order, regulation or other instrument made under the Hazardous Materials Information Review Act or the Hazardous Products Act shall be read as a reference to the Minister of Health unless the context otherwise requires or unless the relevant power, duty or function has been assigned to another minister. (3) A reference to the Minister of National Health and Welfare in any other Act of Parliament or in any order, regulation or other instrument made under any Act of Parliament shall be read as a reference to the Minister of Health, unless the context otherwise requires or unless the relevant power, duty or function has been assigned to another minister.
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34 (1) [Amendments] (2) A reference to the Department of National Health and Welfare in any other Act of Parliament or in any order, regulation or other instrument made under any Act of Parliament shall be read as a reference to the Department of Health, unless the context otherwise requires or unless the relevant power, duty or function has been assigned to a minister other than the Minister of Health.
Department of Health Act — H-3.2 Coming into force
Coming into force * 38 This Act or any provision of this Act comes into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council. * [Note: Act in force July 12, 1996, see SI/96-69.]
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3 1
Short title 1 This Act may be cited as the Health of Animals Act .
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actured, 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 abnormal physical state — or its symptoms — in animals and that is (a) a helminth, protozoa or micro-organism, (b) a substance or mixture of substances derived from animals, helminths, protozoa, micro-organisms or plants, or (c) a substance of synthetic origin; ( produit biologique vétérinaire ) veterinary inspector means a veterinarian designated as an inspector pursuant to section 32; ( vétérinaire-inspecteur ) violation means (a) any contravention of any provision of this Act or of a regulation made under this Act, or (b) any refusal or neglect to perform any duty imposed by or under this Act, that may be proceeded with in accordance with the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act . ( violation ) Ministerial regulations (2) The Minister may make regulations excluding places from the definition hatchery and prescribing reportable diseases and toxic substances. Incorporation by reference (3) Toxic substances may be prescribed (a) in terms of the quantity or concentration in which substances are contained in other substances; and (b) by reference to substances specified in any published document, as amended from time to time. 1990, c. 21, s. 2; 1994, c. 38, s. 25; 1995, c. 40, s. 54; 1997, c. 6, s. 67; 2001, c. 4, s. 173(F); 2012, c. 24, s. 93; 2015, c. 2, s. 84
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
analyst means a person designated as an analyst pursuant to section 32; ( analyste )
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animal includes an embryo and a fertilized egg or ovum; ( animal )
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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 )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
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 )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
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 )
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animal product includes cream, eggs, milk, non-fertilized ova and semen; ( produit animal )
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Assessor means the Assessor or any Deputy Assessor appointed under Part II of the Pesticide Residue Compensation Act ; ( évaluateur )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
conveyance means any aircraft, carriage, motor vehicle, trailer, railway car, vessel, cargo container or other contrivance used to move persons, animals or things; ( véhicule )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
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 )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3 (a)
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 )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
dispose includes slaughter or otherwise destroy, bury or render; ( Version anglaise seulement )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
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 )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
hatchery means, subject to any regulations made under subsection (2), a place where eggs are incubated or chicks are hatched; ( couvoir )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
infected place means a place that is constituted to be an infected place under section 22 or 23 or under the regulations; ( lieu contaminé )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
inspector means a person designated as an inspector pursuant to section 32; ( inspecteur )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
justice means a justice as defined in section 2 of the Criminal Code ; ( juge de paix )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
Minister means the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food; ( ministre )
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officer means a person designated as an officer pursuant to section 32, but does not include an analyst; ( agent d’exécution )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
peace officer means a peace officer as defined in section 2 of the Criminal Code ; ( agent de la paix )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
penalty means an administrative monetary penalty imposed under the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act for a violation; ( sanction )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
prescribed means prescribed by regulation; ( Version anglaise seulement )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3 (a)
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 )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
reportable means prescribed as reportable by the Minister; ( déclarable )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
toxic substance means a substance prescribed as toxic by the Minister; ( substance toxique )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
Tribunal means the Review Tribunal continued by subsection 27(1) of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act ; ( Commission )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
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 )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3 (a)
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 abnormal physical state — or its symptoms — in animals and that is (a) a helminth, protozoa or micro-organism, (b) a substance or mixture of substances derived from animals, helminths, protozoa, micro-organisms or plants, or (c) a substance of synthetic origin; ( produit biologique vétérinaire )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3
veterinary inspector means a veterinarian designated as an inspector pursuant to section 32; ( vétérinaire-inspecteur )
Health of Animals Act — H-3.3 (a)
violation means (a) any contravention of any provision of this Act or of a regulation made under this Act, or (b) any refusal or neglect to perform any duty imposed by or under this Act, that may be proceeded with in accordance with the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act . ( violation )
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Binding on Her Majesty 3 This Act is binding on Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province.
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Limits of ports, etc. 4 The Governor in Council may, by order, define the limits of ports and of other places for the purposes of this Act.
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Notification by owner, etc. 5 (1) A person who owns or has the possession, care or control of an animal shall notify the nearest veterinary inspector of the presence of a reportable disease or toxic substance, or any fact indicating its presence, in or around the animal, immediately after the person becomes aware of the presence or fact. Notification by veterinarian, etc. (2) Immediately after a person who is a veterinarian or who analyses animal specimens suspects that an animal is affected or contaminated by a reportable disease or toxic substance, the person shall so notify a veterinary inspector.