No. 77 7 Elizabeth II, 1959 5th Session, 13th Legislature, Alberta BILL 77 A Bill to regulate the Artificial Insemination of Domestic Aninlals HON. MR. HALMRAST printed by L. S. "VALL, Printer to the Queen's l\Iost Excellent Majesty, Edmonton, Alberta, 1959

Explanatory Note General. This Act is intended to give authority to regulate per­ sons commercially engaged in all aspects of the artificial insemina­ tion of domestic animals. It is not intended to control persons who use the procedures only in respect of their own animals. 2.

Definitions. 3. An artificial insemination advisory committee may be estab­ lished by the Minister of Agriculture. 4. (

a) Licensing authority.

BILL No. 77 of 1959

An Act to regulate the Artificial Insemination of Domestic Animals (Assented to I 1959) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Artificial Insemination of Domestic Animals Act". 2.

In this Act, (a) "domestic animal" includes poultry; (b) "inseminating business" means a person who pro­ vides an artificial insemination service for domestic animals; (c) "semen bank" means a person who stores semen of domestic animals from one or more semen produc­ ing business for distribution to inseminating businesses or technicians; (d) "semen producing business" means a person who undertakes the collection of semen to be used for the artificial insemination of domestic animals; (e) "technician" means a person who engages in the technical processes involved in the artificial insem­ ination of domestic animals, including the col­ lection of semen and the processing of semen. 3.

(1) The Minister of Agriculture may appoint an artificial insemination advisory committee, consisting of one or more persons, to advise him on matters relating to artificial insemination.

(2) The members of the committee shall receive such allowances and expenses as may be determined by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. 4. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regula­ tions (

a) providing for the licensing of technicians, insem­ inating businesses, semen producing businesses and semen banks, or any of them, and prescribing the duration of the licences and the fees payable there­ for,

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b) Regulatory powers. (

c) Classes of technicians. (

d) Qualifications of technicians. (

e) Minimum standards of sanitation, etc. (

f) Health tests. (

g) Control of semen tlsed. (

h) Records. (

i) Grants. (

j) General. 5. Penalty section. 6. The Act does not apply to a person artificially inseminating his own animals.

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b) prescribing the conditions under which any class or type of licence may be issued, suspended or re­ voked and the conditions under which any person may be prohibited from acting as a technician or from operating a semen producing business, in­ seminating business or a semen bank, (

c) prescribing classes of technicians, (

d) prescribing the qualifications required by tech­ nicians or by any class of technicians, (

e) prescribing requirements and minimum standards of sanitation, equipment and construction for the premises of semen producing businesses, semen banks and inseminating businesses, or any of them, (

I) prescribing health tests, necessary for male domestic animals kept by a semen producing business, (

g) prescribing conditions governing the standard of semen that (

i) may be stored by a semen bank or inseminating business, or (ii) may be used by an inseminating business or technicians, (

h) requiring the keeping of records and the making of returns or the furnishing of information by in­ seminating businesses, technicians, semen produc­ ing businesses and semen banks, (

i) providing for the payment of grants or other assistance for the furtherance of artificial insemina­ tion practices, including grants for training pur­ poses, and (

j) respecting any other matter or thing necessary or advisable to carry out effectively the intent and purpose of this Act. 5.

(1) A person who contravenes this Act or the regula­ tions hereunder is guilty of an offence and liable on sum­ mary conviction (

a) where the offender is a technician to a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for a first offence and not more than one hundred dollars for a subsequent offence, or (

b) where the offender is a semen producing business, a semen bank or an inseminating business to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for a first offence and not more than two hundred and fifty dollars for a subsequent offence.

(2) A prosecution under subsection (1) may be com­ menced within two years of the commission of the alleged offence, but not afterward. H. This Act does not apply (

a) to the collection of semen from domestic animals

3 by the person who owns the animals, or his ser­ vant, for the artificial insemination of other animals owned by the person, or (

b) to the artificial insemination of domestic animals by the person who owns the animals, or his servant. 7. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

No. 77 FIFT'H SESSION THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURE 7 ELIZABETH II 1959 BILL

An Act to regulate the Artificial Insemination of Domestic Animals Received and read the First time ........ . Second time ....... . Third time. HON. l\iR. HALMRAST Title: 1959 (13th, 5th) Bill 77,

An Act to regulate the Artificial Insemination of Domestic Animals