Livestock Diseases Act (RSA 2000, c. L-15).

The Minister may appoint as veterinary inspectors to administer this Act persons who are registered veterinarians. The Minister on being satisfied that a communicable disease exists in an area, or on receipt of a petition under section 3, may in his discretion recommend that the Lieutenant Governor in Council make a control order under section 4. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make a control order concerning all or any of the following: (a) naming the communicable disease to which the order applies; (b) describing the control area; (c) the tests to be used in the identification of the communicable disease; (d) isolation and segregation of livestock; (e) the destruction of any affected livestock that are or were in the control area and the method of disposal of the carcasses; (f) the cleansing and disinfecting of premises; (g) treatment or immunization of livestock; and (h) the payment of compensation for livestock destroyed pursuant to the control order. With the prior consent of the Minister, the Director may establish a quarantine area within a control area (sect. 5). The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations concerning the conditions under which persons other than pharmacists or restricted practitioners under the Pharmaceutical Profession Act or registered veterinarians or permit holders under the Veterinary Profession Act may sell medicine (sect. 9). Further regulation making powers of the Lieutenant Governor in Council are set out in section 10. The Minister by regulation shall make a list designating certain communicable diseases for the purposes of section 11. Section 11 imposes an obligation to report and advise on those diseases. No person shall sell any meat, offal or product from the carcass of affected livestock unless it has been rendered safe by sterilization (sect. 12).