C-61.1, r. 33.1 - Regulation respecting the sale, importation, possession and disposal of an animal or wildlife by-product

Section 3.1 Disposition versions

2024-09-19

3.1. Possession of a cervid that died outside Québec is prohibited.

This prohibition does not apply to

(1)  the meat or quarters if the brain, eyes, tonsils, retropharyngeal lymph nodes, spinal column, skin and subcutaneous fat, internal organs and reproductive organs have been removed;

(2)  the hide, tanned or with the fat removed, and the leather;

(3)  the antlers without velvet;

(4)  the skull, vertebral column bones, teeth or hooves free of soft tissue and disinfected;

(5)  bones not referred to in subparagraph 4.

The first paragraph does not apply to a person who, within the scope of their functions, has in their possession a cervid having died outside Québec:

(1)  for the purpose of activities authorized by a meat processing, preserving, storing, packaging and labelling licence delivered under the Safe Food for Canadians Act (S.C. 2012, c. 24);

(2)  for scientific, diagnostic or educational purposes in a laboratory or a university-level educational institution;

(3)  for the purpose of its salvaging and reclamation in accordance with section 3.8;

(4)  for the purpose of its disposal in accordance with section 3.9;

(5)  to transport the cervid to a facility for the purposes referred to in subparagraphs 1 to 4.

O.C. 1328-2011, s. 1; O.C. 1341-2024, s. 4.

2012-09-01

3.1. The possession of full carcasses or any part of the brain, spinal column, eyes, retropharyngeal lymph nodes, tonsils, testicles or internal organs of cervids killed outside Québec is prohibited.

That prohibition does not apply to the following body parts:

— boneless meat;

— quarters without pieces of spinal column or head attached;

— hides and leather, tanned or with the fat removed;

— antlers without velvet;

— disinfected calvarium without meat or tissue attached;

— teeth without meat or tissue attached;

— any piece assembled by a taxidermist.

O.C. 1328-2011, s. 1.