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P-42 - Animal Health Protection Act
Section 3.1
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3.1. The owner or custodian of an animal shall report to a veterinary surgeon any fact indicating the existence of a contagious or parasitic disease, an infectious agent or a syndrome in the animal.
The veterinary surgeon shall, without delay, report to a veterinary surgeon designated by the Minister for the purpose of the carrying out of this division all cases in which the veterinary surgeon suspects the existence of a contagious or parasitic disease or the existence of an infectious agent or a syndrome.
The head of a laboratory where samples of animal tissues, products, secretions, excreta or dejecta or samples of an animal’s environment have been analysed shall report immediately to the Minister or to any other person designated by the Minister any analysis results indicating the existence of a contagious or parasitic disease, an infectious agent or a syndrome designated under subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of section 3.
3.1. The owner or custodian of an animal shall report to a veterinary surgeon any fact indicating the existence of a contagious or parasitic disease in the animal.
The veterinary surgeon shall, without delay, report to a veterinary surgeon designated by the Minister for the purpose of the carrying out of this division all cases of a contagious or parasitic disease.
3.1. The owner or possessor of an animal shall report forthwith to the officer designated by the Minister or to a veterinary surgeon the presence of any symptom of a contagious or parasitic disease determined by regulation and observed in the animal.
Every veterinary surgeon shall, without delay, report to the officer designated by the Minister any contagious or parasitic disease which he has diagnosed, which he suspects, on serious grounds, of affecting an animal or a symptom of which has been reported to him under the first paragraph.
