P-42 - Animal Health Protection Act

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22.1. The Government may, by regulation, to ensure animal traceability, establish an identification system for any species or category of animal it determines, require animals to be identified subject to the conditions and according to the rules or procedure it fixes, prescribe the obligations of owners or custodians of animals or of any other person it determines and determine the applicable fees payable.
The regulatory provisions concerning fees payable for a given identification system as determined pursuant to the first paragraph shall cease to apply on the date as of which fees are payable for the system under the third paragraph of section 22.3.
2000, c. 40, s. 14; 2003, c. 24, s. 1.
22.1. The Government may, by regulation, to ensure animal traceability, establish an identification system for any species or category of animal it determines, require animals to be identified subject to the conditions and according to the rules or procedure it fixes, prescribe the obligations of owners or custodians of animals or of any other person it determines and determine the applicable fees payable.
The identification system established pursuant to the first paragraph shall concern the following information only: the name and address of the operation from which the animal originates, the name and address of the successive owners or, if applicable, custodians of the animal, the registration number of the operation if it is registered under the provisions of Division VII.2 of the Act respecting the Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation (chapter M‐14), the species or category of the animal, the identification of the animal, the date of issue of the identification, the date of identification of the animal, the animal’s sex and age and, if applicable, any replacement identification, and the movements of the animal outside the operation from which the animal originates. Where the operation comprises more than one production site, the identification system may also concern the location of each site and the movements of the animal from one site to another.
2000, c. 40, s. 14.