24. No person shall take semen from an animal, keep animal semen in his possession, deliver it to any person or trade in it, or artificially inseminate an animal, unless he holds a permit issued for such purposes by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Such permit shall be annual; it shall expire on the 31st of December of the year for which it is issued.
1968, c. 42, s. 1; 1973, c. 22, s. 22; 1979, c. 77, s. 21.