43. (1) In this section, “employer” includes a principal.  R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 1093, s. 43 (1); O. Reg. 233/15, s. 29 (1). (2) It is a conflict of interest for a member who is employed by a person other than another member or a professional corporation, or who has a contract to provide veterinary services with such a  person, to perform veterinary services in the course of his or her employment or pursuant to his or her contract for a client other than the employer or the contractor. O. Reg. 233/15, s. 29 (2). (3) Despite subsection (2), a member who is employed by any of the following persons or entities, or who has a contract to provide services with any of the following persons or entities, does not have a conflict of interest if, in the course of his or her employment or pursuant to his or her contract, he or she performs veterinary services for a client other than the employer or the contractor: 1.  The Crown in right of Canada or the Crown in right of Ontario or an agency of the Crown. 2.  Any university, college of applied arts and technology or post-secondary institution in Ontario, the enrolments of which are counted for purposes of calculating annual operating grants received from the Government of Ontario. 3.  Any post-secondary institution that is affiliated with a university referred to in paragraph 2, the enrolments of which are not counted for purposes of calculating annual operating grants received from the Government of Ontario. 4.  A Royal Military College. 5.  A pound operated under the Animals for Research Act or an entity prescribed under subsection 6 (1) of Ontario Regulation 447/19 (Ministerial Prescriptions) made under the Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act, 2019. 6.  The estate trustee of a deceased member or an attorney pursuant to a continuing power of attorney or a Guardian of Property of a mentally incapacitated member, for a reasonable period of time after the member’s death or the commencement of the member’s incapacity to settle matters. 7.  A zoo or a wildlife rehabilitation centre. O. Reg. 233/15, s. 29 (2); O. Reg. 260/22, s. 6. (4) Despite subsection (2), a member who is employed by, or has a contract to provide veterinary services with, a municipal corporation does not have a conflict of interest with respect to any spay or neuter procedures, including the pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative management services usually associated with such procedures, that the member performs in the course of his or her employment or pursuant to his or her contract, for a client other than the municipal corporation. O. Reg. 233/15, s. 29 (2). (4.1) Despite subsection (2), a member who is employed by, or has a contract to provide veterinary services with, an individual, partnership or corporation that sells food or drug products for use in food-producing animals, does not have a conflict of interest with respect to veterinary services that the member provides in the course of his or her employment or pursuant to his or her contract, if the following conditions are met: 1.  The veterinary services must relate to the food or drug products sold by the employer or contractor. 2.  The veterinary services must be provided to an established customer of the employer or contractor at the customer’s farm or at a similar establishment. 3.  The member must take all reasonable steps to notify the veterinarian who would normally attend the client’s animals of the member’s visit and the reasons for it so that that veterinarian may discuss the matter with the client and, if desirable, arrange to meet the member before or at the visit. O. Reg. 233/15, s. 29 (2). (4.2) Despite subsection (2), a member who is employed by, or has a contract to provide veterinary services with, Eastgen Incorporated does not have a conflict of interest with respect to the following veterinary services that the member provides, in the course of his or her employment or pursuant to his or her contract, to animals that are not owned by Eastgen Incorporated: 1.  In the case of a member who has been continuously employed by, or under a contract for veterinary services with, Eastgen Incorporated since September 14, 1998, services in respect of fertility, including ova and embryo transfer. 2.  In the case of a member who was employed by, or entered into a contract for veterinary services with, Eastgen Incorporated after September 14, 1998, ova and embryo transfer services. O. Reg. 233/15, s. 29 (2). (5) Despite subsection (2), it is not a conflict of interest for a member to provide veterinarian services under the following circumstances: 1.  The member is employed by, or has a contract to provide services to, an entity that is an individual, a partnership or a corporation. 2.  The entity does not provide services or products that are exclusive to veterinary medicine. 3.  In the course of the member’s employment or provision of services, the member performs veterinary services related only to the entity’s products or  services, for an established customer of the entity and at the customer’s farm or similar establishment. 4.  In the course of the member’s employment or provision of services, the member takes all reasonable steps to notify the normally attending veterinarian of the member’s proposed visit and the reasons for it so that the normally attending veterinarian can discuss the matter with his or her client, and, if desirable, arrange to meet the member before or at the visit.  O. Reg. 431/00, s. 10 (3); O. Reg. 233/15, s. 29 (3, 4). (6) Despite subsection (2), it is not a conflict of interest for a member to provide veterinary services under the following circumstances: 1.  The member is employed by, or has a contract to provide services to, an entity that is an individual, a partnership or a corporation. 2.  The entity is engaged in manufacturing or selling feed for poultry or is engaged in breeding, hatching, growing, processing or feeding poultry. 3.  The entity does not offer veterinary services as an inducement to others to buy its products or to sell products to it.  O. Reg. 431/00, s. 10 (3); O. Reg. 233/15, s. 29 (5). (7) Despite anything in subsections (3) to (6), a member who is employed by a person or entity described in any of those subsections, or who has a contract to provide veterinary services with such a person, has a conflict of interest in respect of any services that the member provides where the employer or contractor exercises control or influences any of the clinical or professional aspects of the provision of services. O. Reg. 233/15, s. 29 (6). (8) For greater certainty, subsection (7) applies even where the member is providing services to an animal that is owned by, or in the custody of, the person who employs the member or with whom he or she has a contract for the provision of veterinary services. O. Reg. 233/15, s. 29 (6).