Section 2 · Health of Animals Act

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(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 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)

(2)The Minister may make regulations excluding places from the definition hatchery and prescribing reportable diseases and toxic substances.

(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.

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