p42 s2 bill 53 b053 e.pdf

Ontario — Bills

2ND SESSION, 42ND LEGISLATURE, ONTARIO ELIZABETH II, 2021 Bill

An Act to amend the Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act, 2019 to prohibit non-essential cat declawing Ms M. Stiles Private Member’s Bill 1st Reading November 18, 2021 2nd Reading 3rd Reading Royal Assent Bill 53

An Act to amend the Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act, 2019 to prohibit non-essential cat declawing Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1 The Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act, 2019 is amended by adding the following section: Partial digital amputation of cats 17.1

(1) No person shall permit, cause, encourage, promote, arrange, conduct, assist in, receive a financial or material benefit for or take

part in the partial digital amputation of a cat unless a veterinarian providing veterinary care in accordance with the standards of practice established under the Veterinarians Act has determined that the partial digital amputation would not constitute a medically unnecessary veterinary surgery.

Definitions

(2) In this section, “medically unnecessary veterinary surgery” means a veterinary surgery that is not required or is not in the animal’s overall best interest; (“acte chirurgical vétérinaire inutile sur le plan médical”) “partial digital amputation” means the surgical removal of the third phalanx of each digit on a cat’s front paws or front and rear paws. (“amputation partielle des doigts”) 2 Subsection 49 (2) of the Act is amended by adding the following clause: (d.1)

section 17.1 (Partial digital amputation of cats); Commencement This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short title The

short title of this Act is Teddy’s Law (Anti-Declawing), 2021. ______________ EXPLANATORY NOTE The Bill amends the Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act, 2019 to add

section 17.1.

Section 17.1 prohibits the partial digital amputation of a cat unless a veterinarian has determined that the procedure would not constitute a medically unnecessary veterinary surgery.

Document details

Collection	Ontario — Bills
Citation	p42 s2 bill 53 b053 e.pdf
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	p42 s2 bill 53 b053 e.pdf
Language	en
Format	pdf
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	acec0dc17cb08966f6db55315dfbe7fb67a57ea3

Source file is stored in the law ingest library (pdf).