Acts and Regulations

2011, c.207 - Poultry Health Protection Act

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Regulations
6(1)The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make those regulations that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council considers necessary or expedient for the purpose of eradicating or preventing the spread of contagious diseases among poultry in the Province and, for that purpose, for controlling or prohibiting the admission into the Province of poultry infected with a contagious disease and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations
(a) providing that no person may have in the person’s possession in the Province poultry infected with a contagious disease;
(b) prohibiting the admission into the Province of poultry infected with a contagious disease;
(c) providing that no poultry may be admitted into the Province without a certificate of the Chief Veterinary Officer of Canada, or of any other person designated in the regulations, as to the freedom of the poultry from contagious disease;
(d) providing for the segregation or destruction and disposal without compensation to its owner of poultry infected with a contagious disease or of any flock of poultry among which poultry infected with a contagious disease are found;
(e) defining the contagious disease or contagious diseases to which a regulation made under this Act applies;
(f) respecting standards of construction and maintenance of a hatchery;
(g) respecting the issuing of licences to hatchery operators and prescribing terms and conditions of these licences;
(h) respecting the licensing of agents or brokers;
(i) respecting the conditions under which a hatchery operation is to be undertaken;
(j) respecting the conditions under which a brooding operation is to be undertaken;
(k) respecting the designation of flocks as hatchery supply flocks and the issuance of certificates certifying that a hatchery supply flock is free from any specified prescribed diseases and prescribing the terms and conditions of these certificates;
(l) respecting the conditions under which hatching eggs may be set;
(m) respecting the advertising of a hatchery or the advertising, packing, marking, purchase and sale of hatching eggs, chicks, poultry or flocks;
(n) respecting the quarantine of a place or area where flocks of poultry or hatching eggs are kept if a contagious disease is present or suspected to exist;
(o) providing for the seizure, detention or movement of a flock or part of a flock of poultry in a place or area under quarantine by a person appointed under section 3 when the person believes that a contagious disease is present or suspected to exist;
(p) providing for the seizure, detention or movement of hatching eggs produced by a flock of poultry in a place or area under quarantine or segregated or destroyed or if on reasonable grounds a person appointed under section 3 believes that a contagious disease is present or suspected to exist;
(q) providing for the release from detention of a flock or part of a flock of poultry or of hatching eggs produced by a flock of poultry in a place or area under quarantine or detained or segregated or destroyed, if the Minister is satisfied that the flocks or hatching eggs that have been seized or detained are not infected with any of the prescribed diseases;
(r) providing for the disposal of the whole or a part of a flock of poultry or hatching eggs that have been seized or detained;
(s) prescribing the manner in which flocks or hatching eggs shall be seized, detained, released, moved or disposed of;
(t) respecting the disinfection of a place, vehicle or container;
(u) respecting the treatment of a flock of poultry;
(v) respecting fees for disinfection services;
(w) respecting books, records and accounts to be maintained by hatchery operators or distributors;
(x) prescribing fees for licences or certificates issued under this Act;
(y) respecting forms to be used for the purposes of the regulations;
(z) generally for any other matter or thing incidental to or considered necessary or expedient for attaining the above objects.
6(2)A regulation may be general or particular in its application and may apply to all or any part of the Province.
R.S.1973, c.P-12, s.1; 1981, c.61, s.1; 1983, c.8, s.28
Regulations
6(1)The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make those regulations that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council considers necessary or expedient for the purpose of eradicating or preventing the spread of contagious diseases among poultry in the Province and, for that purpose, for controlling or prohibiting the admission into the Province of poultry infected with a contagious disease and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations
(a) providing that no person may have in the person’s possession in the Province poultry infected with a contagious disease;
(b) prohibiting the admission into the Province of poultry infected with a contagious disease;
(c) providing that no poultry may be admitted into the Province without a certificate of the Chief Veterinary Officer of Canada, or of any other person designated in the regulations, as to the freedom of the poultry from contagious disease;
(d) providing for the segregation or destruction and disposal without compensation to its owner of poultry infected with a contagious disease or of any flock of poultry among which poultry infected with a contagious disease are found;
(e) defining the contagious disease or contagious diseases to which a regulation made under this Act applies;
(f) respecting standards of construction and maintenance of a hatchery;
(g) respecting the issuing of licences to hatchery operators and prescribing terms and conditions of these licences;
(h) respecting the licensing of agents or brokers;
(i) respecting the conditions under which a hatchery operation is to be undertaken;
(j) respecting the conditions under which a brooding operation is to be undertaken;
(k) respecting the designation of flocks as hatchery supply flocks and the issuance of certificates certifying that a hatchery supply flock is free from any specified prescribed diseases and prescribing the terms and conditions of these certificates;
(l) respecting the conditions under which hatching eggs may be set;
(m) respecting the advertising of a hatchery or the advertising, packing, marking, purchase and sale of hatching eggs, chicks, poultry or flocks;
(n) respecting the quarantine of a place or area where flocks of poultry or hatching eggs are kept if a contagious disease is present or suspected to exist;
(o) providing for the seizure, detention or movement of a flock or part of a flock of poultry in a place or area under quarantine by a person appointed under section 3 when the person believes that a contagious disease is present or suspected to exist;
(p) providing for the seizure, detention or movement of hatching eggs produced by a flock of poultry in a place or area under quarantine or segregated or destroyed or if on reasonable grounds a person appointed under section 3 believes that a contagious disease is present or suspected to exist;
(q) providing for the release from detention of a flock or part of a flock of poultry or of hatching eggs produced by a flock of poultry in a place or area under quarantine or detained or segregated or destroyed, if the Minister is satisfied that the flocks or hatching eggs that have been seized or detained are not infected with any of the prescribed diseases;
(r) providing for the disposal of the whole or a part of a flock of poultry or hatching eggs that have been seized or detained;
(s) prescribing the manner in which flocks or hatching eggs shall be seized, detained, released, moved or disposed of;
(t) respecting the disinfection of a place, vehicle or container;
(u) respecting the treatment of a flock of poultry;
(v) respecting fees for disinfection services;
(w) respecting books, records and accounts to be maintained by hatchery operators or distributors;
(x) prescribing fees for licences or certificates issued under this Act;
(y) respecting forms to be used for the purposes of the regulations;
(z) generally for any other matter or thing incidental to or considered necessary or expedient for attaining the above objects.
6(2)A regulation may be general or particular in its application and may apply to all or any part of the Province.
R.S.1973, c.P-12, s.1; 1981, c.61, s.1; 1983, c.8, s.28