Bill S-270
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- Health of Animals Act Health of Animals Act
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations
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First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023 |
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SENATE OF CANADA |
An Act to amend the Health of Animals Act and the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations (live horses)
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FIRST READING, June 21, 2023
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THE HONOURABLE SENATOR DALPHOND |
SUMMARY
This Act amends the Health of Animals Act to prohibit the export from Canada of live horses and other equines for slaughter. It also amends the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations to make the administrative monetary penalty regime set out in those regulations applicable to a violation of the prohibition on the export of live horses or other equines for slaughter.
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Available on the Senate of Canada website at the following address: www.sencanada.ca/en |
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1st Session, 44th Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023 |
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SENATE OF CANADA |
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BILL S-270 |
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An Act to amend the Health of Animals Act and the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations (live horses) |
His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
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1 This Act may be cited as the Horse Protection Act.
1990, c. 21
Health of Animals Act
2 The Health of Animals Act is amended by adding the following after section 19:
Prohibition — export of live horses for slaughter
Start of inserted block19.1 (1) No person shall export from Canada a horse or other equine for slaughter.
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Start of inserted block(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person exports a horse or other equine for slaughter if the person knows or should reasonably know that the horse or other equine is being exported for the purpose of being slaughtered or fattened for slaughter.
End of inserted blockSOR/2000-187
Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations
3 Division 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations is amended by adding the following item after item 15:
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Published under authority of the Senate of Canada
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