Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023, S.O. 2023, c. 2 - Bill 46
Jurisdiction | Ontario |
Date | 22 March 2023 |
Bill Number | 46 |
chapter 2
An Act to enact one Act and amend various other Acts
Assented to March 22, 2023
CONTENTS
His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:
Contents of this Act
1 This Act consists of this section, sections 2 and 3 and the Schedules to this Act.
Commencement
2 (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, this Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
(2) The Schedules to this Act come into force as provided in each Schedule.
(3) If a Schedule to this Act provides that any provisions are to come into force on a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, a proclamation may apply to one or more of those provisions, and proclamations may be issued at different times with respect to any of those provisions.
Short title
3 The short title of this Act is the Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023.
SCHEDULE 1
ANIMAL HEALTH ACT, 2009
1 Subparagraph 5 iii of section 18 of the Animal Health Act, 2009 is repealed and the following substituted:
iii. determining whether a person is in compliance with or has complied with an order made or issued under section 20, 21, 23, 23.1 or 25,
iii.1 determining whether a person is in compliance with or has complied with requirements, restrictions or measures imposed by the Chief Veterinarian for Ontario under subsection 24 (7), or
2 The Act is amended by adding the following section:
Temporary response order
23.1 (1) The Minister may, in accordance with this section, issue a temporary response order in writing that applies with respect to any part of the Province or for the entire Province, or with respect to facilities or classes of facilities in the Province or any part of the Province, for one or more of the following purposes:
1. To minimize the risk of one or more specific hazards from entering the Province if the hazard is believed not to be present in the Province and,
i. the hazard has been confirmed to be present in another jurisdiction, or
ii. there are reasonable grounds to suspect the hazard is present in another jurisdiction.
2. To designate and protect the Province or one or more parts of the Province that are believed to be either free from the presence of one or more specific hazards or to have a low prevalence of one or more specific hazards.
3. To prevent, detect, control, suppress or mitigate any one or more specific hazards if there is a significant risk to animal or human health in the Province.
Limitation — urgency of mitigating risk
(2) The Minister shall not issue a temporary response order unless, after receiving the advice of the Chief Veterinarian for Ontario, the Minister is of the opinion that,
(a) any delay in implementing the measures authorized or required by the order will or is likely to increase substantially the risk to animal or human health; and
(b) immediate measures are necessary to mitigate the possibility of that risk increasing.
Minister’s opinion
(3) In forming an opinion under this section, the Minister shall consider the principle that the absence of scientific consensus should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize the risk to animal or human health.
Contents of order
(4) The order may do any of the following:
1. Establish restrictions on the transportation, movement or distribution of living or dead animals...
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