P-42 - Animal Health Protection Act

Section 26 Disposition versions

1986-09-03

26. No person may, for the purposes of the artificial insemination of an animal, collect, keep in his possession, prepare, use, purchase, exchange or give, offer for sale, store, sell in any place, transport, or cause to be transported animal semen that is not fit for insemination or does not meet the standards of sanitation and quality or the collection, conditioning and labelling requirements prescribed by regulation.

1968, c. 42, s. 1; 1973, c. 22, s. 22; 1979, c. 77, s. 21; 1986, c. 53, s. 13.

1980-01-24

26. The Government may make regulations to:

(a)  determine the qualifications and standards of competence required of any person who applies for a permit, the form and tenor of applications for permits, the fees exigible, the documents which must accompany such applications and the information which may be required;

(b)  fix standards applicable to the organization, management, direction and operation of any establishment kept by the holder of a permit for the purposes contemplated in section 24;

(c)  fix standards respecting the breed, source and other characteristics of the animals which may be artificially inseminated and of the animals from which semen may be taken and the matings which may be effected by the articial insemination of an animal;

(d)  determine the methods to be followed by the holder of a permit for the artificial insemination of animals and for the taking, preservation, distribution and transportation of semen to be used for the artificial insemination of animals;

(e)  withdraw from the application of this act any category of animals which it determines;

(f)  determine the cases in which a breeder shall be dispensed from obtaining a permit to inseminate artificially his own animals;

(g)  prescribe the books and registers to be kept by every holder of a permit, the reports that he must make to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the information that such reports must contain and the time when they must be filed;

(h)  determine the cases in which the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food may suspend or cancel the permit of a holder who has infringed any provision of this division or of the regulations.

Such regulations shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec or on such later date as is fixed therein.

1968, c. 42, s. 1; 1973, c. 22, s. 22; 1979, c. 77, s. 21.

1977-12-31

26. The Gouvernement may make regulations to:

(a)  determine the qualifications and standards of competence required of any person who applies for a permit, the form and tenor of applications for permits, the fees exigible, the documents which must accompany such applications and the information which may be required;

(b)  fix standards applicable to the organization, management, direction and operation of any establishment kept by the holder of a permit for the purposes contemplated in section 24;

(c)  fix standards respecting the breed, source and other characteristics of the animals which may be artificially inseminated and of the animals from which semen may be taken and the matings which may be effected by the articial insemination of an animal;

(d)  determine the methods to be followed by the holder of a permit for the artificial insemination of animals and for the taking, preservation, distribution and transportation of semen to be used for the artificial insemination of animals;

(e)  withdraw from the application of this act any category of animals which it determines;

(f)  determine the cases in which a breeder shall be dispensed from obtaining a permit to inseminate artificially his own animals;

(g)  prescribe the books and registers to be kept by every holder of a permit, the reports that he must make to the Minister of Agriculture, the information that such reports must contain and the time when they must be filed;

(h)  determine the cases in which the Minister of Agriculture may suspend or cancel the permit of a holder who has infringed any provision of this division or of the regulations.

Such regulations shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec or on such later date as is fixed therein.

1968, c. 42, s. 1; 1973, c. 22, s. 22.