Destruction and Disposal of Dead Animals Regulation (Alta Reg. 229/2000).

The present Regulation is enacted under the Animal Health Act. At the outset the Regulation contains the definition of certain terms such as, “composting”, “dead animal”, “licensed”, “natural disposal”, “owner”, “reportable disease”. Section 6 establishes that the Minister may appoint an advisory committee consisting of both government and industry representatives to oversee the implementation of this Regulation. The text – consisting of 8 sections – deals, inter alia, with the following aspects: methods of disposal, diagnosis of animal diseases, dead animal as food, Advisory Committee.