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Bill C-80

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AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE CERTAIN ACTS RESPECTING FOOD, AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES, AQUATIC COMMODITIES AND AGRICULTURAL INPUTS, TO AMEND THE CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY ACT, THE AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD ADMINISTRATIVE MONETARY PENALTIES ACT, THE HEALTH OF ANIMALS ACT, THE PLANT PROTECTION ACT AND THE PLANT BREEDERS' RIGHTS ACT, AND TO REPEAL AND AMEND OTHER ACTS IN CONSEQUENCE

SHORT TITLE

1. Short title

INTERPRETATION

2. Definitions

PURPOSE

3. Purpose

ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT

4. Responsibility of Agency

5. Responsibility of Minister of Health

HER MAJESTY

6. Binding on Her Majesty

PART 1

ADMINISTRATIVE REGIME

Licences
7. Minister may issue licences

8. Unlicensed activities prohibited

9. Presumption

10. Minister may attach licence conditions

11. Licence suspension or revocation

12. Review of Minister's decision

Intellectual Property
13. National trade-marks

14. Use of similar mark or grade name

PART 2

PROHIBITIONS

Food Safety
15. Prohibited sales of food

16. Unsafe manufacture, etc., of food

Tampering
17. Tampering with food or inputs

18. Claims of tampering with food or inputs

Deceptive Practices
19. Deceptive preparation or sale

Trade in Food, Agricultural or Aquatic Commodities and Agricultural Inputs
20. Presentation of imports

21. Import of food, commodities or inputs

22. Export of commodities

23. Preparation or sale of commodities

24. Tainted commodities

25. Feeds

26. Seeds

27. Fertilizer

PART 3

REGULATIONS, ORDERS AND CERTIFICATES

Regulations
28. Regulations made on recommendation of Minister

Incorporation by Reference
29. Incorporation by reference of externally produced material

30. Defence

Ministerial Orders and Certificates
31. Emergency order

32. Emergency exemptions

33. Order not a statutory instrument

34. Minister to determine weeds

35. Certificates for imported seeds

PART 4

PENAL PROVISIONS

Offences and Penalties
36. Food safety offences

37. Continuing offences

38. Limitation period

39. Offences by corporate officers, etc.

40. Offences by employees, agents or mandataries

41. Place of trial

42. Additional fine

43. Revoking licences, etc.

44. Orders of court

45. Suspended sentence

46. Publication of facts of offence

47. Debt due to Her Majesty

48. Contravention of order

49. Recovery of fines

Evidence
50. Presumption

51. Evidence of identification

52. Certificates and reports

PART 5

ARBITRATION AMONG DEALERS

Board of Arbitration
53. Board of Arbitration continued

54. Contractual assistance

55. Absence or incapacity of members

56. Head office

57. Remuneration

58. Court of record

59. Consultations

60. Definition of ``dealer''

Review
61. Application for review

62. Filing in Federal Court

63. Review by Federal Court

64. Jurisdiction over applications for review

Transitional Provisions
65. Definitions

66. Chairperson

67. Other members

68. Pending proceedings

Repeal
69. Repeal by order of Governor in Council

PART 6

CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY ACT

70-79. Amendments to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act

PART 7

AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD ADMINISTRATIVE MONETARY PENALTIES ACT

80-85. Amendments to the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administra tive Monetary Penalties Act

86-89. Transitional Provisions

PART 8

HEALTH OF ANIMALS ACT

90-114. Amendments to the Health of Animals Act

PART 9

PLANT PROTECTION ACT

115-133. Amendments to the Plant Protection Act

PART 10

PLANT BREEDERS' RIGHTS ACT

134-157. Amendments to the Plant Breeders' Rights Act

PART 11

REPEALS, CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS, TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND COMING INTO FORCE

Repeals
158. Canada Agricultural Products Act

159. Feeds Act

160. Fertilizers Act

161. Fish Inspection Act

162. Meat Inspection Act

163. Seeds Act

Consequential Amendments
164. Canadian Wheat Board Act

165. Competition Act

166-171. Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act

172-173. Contraventions Act

174. Excise Act

175. Federal Court Act

176-187. Food and Drugs Act

188-189. Canada Grain Act

190. An Act to amend the Canada Grain Act and the Agricultural and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act and to repeal the Grain Futures Act

191-192. Hazardous Products Act

193-195. Pest Control Products Act

196. Tobacco Act

Transitional Provisions
197. Regulations remain in force

198. Existing licences and registrations

199. Issuance of new licences and registrations

200. Deeming - licences

201. Deeming - registrations

202. Regulations

Coming into Force
203. Coming into force

204. Authority to substitute actual date