Bill 14 (Legislature 16, Session 1)

L16 S1 4465

Alberta — Bills

1968 Bill 14 F First Session, 16th Legislatur&, 117 "EHiabeth II i 11 j t,: «I J THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 14

An Act to amend The Artificial Insemination of Domestic Animals Act THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE First Reading ................................................................. . Second Reading ........................................................ . Third Reading ........................................................... . Printed by L. S. Wall, Queen's Printer, Edmontun

BILL 14 1968

An Act to amend The Artificial Insemination of Domestic Animals Act (Assented to , 1968) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Artificial Insemination of Domestic Animals Act is hereby amended.

Section 2 is amended (

a) by striking out clause (

a) and by substituting the following: (a) "domestic animal" means cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats and poultry; (

b) by striking out clause (

c) and by substituting the following: (c) "semen bank" means a person who stores semen of domestic animals from one or more semen producing businesses for distribution;

Section 4 is amended (

a) bv striking out clause (

c) and by substituting the following: (

c) designa ting different types or classes of in seminating businesses, semen producing busi nesses, semen banks or technicians, which designating may, without in any way restrict ing the generality of the foregoing, be done using as a basis the kind or kinds of domestic animals in respect of which a particular busi ness, bank or technician operates or proposes to operate, and prescribing (

i) different classes or types of licences, and (ii) exemptions from licensing requirements for different types or classes of such busi nesses, banks or technicians, (c1) defining and prescribing circumstances in which persons shall be deemed to not be bona fide assembling their respective herds or flocks

Explanatory Notes I. This Bill amends

chapter 15 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1959. 2. "Domestic animal" i.s redefined and the definition of "semen bank" is broadened.

Section 2 (

a) and (

c) presently read: (a) "domestic animal" includes poultry; . (c) "s~men bank" means a person who stores semen of domestic annnals from one or more semen producing business for distribu tion to inseminating businesses or techncians; 3. These amendments, respectively, give the Lieutenant Gov ernor in Council authority to: (

a) set up a flexible licensing .system, including exemptions from licensing requirements, (

b) define and prescribe circumstances under which a person may properly exempt himself from the Act, (

c) prescribe health tests for female teaser animals, and (

d) prevent false advertising and false practising.

Section 4 (a), (b), (

c) and (

f) presently read: 4. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations (

a) prov,iding for the licensing of technicians, inseminating busi nesses, semen producing businesses and semen banl{s, or any of them, and prescribing the duration of the licences and the fees payable therefor, (

h) prescribing the conditons under which any class or type of licence may be issued, suspended or revoked and the conditions under which any person may be prohibited from acting as a technician or from operating a semen producing business, in sem,ina ting business or semen bank, (

c) prescribing classes of technicians, (

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

within the meaning of subse.ction (2) of sec tion 6, (

b) as to clause (

f) by striking out the word "male", (

c) by adding the following clause after clause (h): (hI) prohibiting any person from publishing or ad vertising false, deceptive or misleading adver tising or news of any service relating to arti ficial insemination, and prohibiting any person from falsely asserting or holding himself out to be a licensed technician or a licensed insemi nating business, licensed semen producing business or licensed semen bank or a repre sentative of any such business or bank,

Section 5, subsection (1) is amended (

a) as to clause (

b) by adding at the end thereof the word ", or", (

b) by adding the following clause after clause (b): (

c) where the offender is other than a technician, semen producing business, semen bank or in seminating business, to a fine of not more than $100 for a first offence and not more than $250 for a subsequent offence.

Section 6 is struck out and the following

section is substituted: G.

(1) This Act does not apply (

a) to the collection of semen from domestic animals by the person who owns the animals 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.

(2) In this

section "person who owns the animals" includes, where two or more persons have bona fide as sembled their respective herds or flocks of domestic animals into a single breeding unit, anyone or more of such persons in the group . . 6. This Act comes into force on the day upon whieh it IS assented to. 2

4. The addition of this clause is designed to impose liability on persons who infringe the Act but who are not technicians, insemi nating businesse.s, semen producing businesses, or semen banks.

Section '5 (1) presently reads: 2 5.

(1) A person who contravenEs this Act or the regulations here under is guilty of an offence and liable on

summary conviction (

a) where the offender is a technician to a fine of not more than twenty-five donal'S for a first offence and not more than one hundrf'd dollars for a subsequent offence, or (lJ) 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 hun dred and fifty dollars for a subsequent offence.

Section 6 presently 'reads: 6. This Act does not apply (

a) to the collection of semen from domestic animals by the person who owns the animals, or his servant, for the artificial insemina tion of other animals owned by the person, or (11) to the artificial insemination of domestic animals by the person who owns the animals. or his servant. Title: 1968 (16th, 1st) Bill 14,

An Act to amend The Artificial Insemination of Domestic Animals Act

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Citation	L16 S1 4465
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