A registration is needed if you wish to operate a research, teaching, or testing facility in Ontario. This is required if your premises uses animals in research, teaching or testing and your premises are used for collecting, assembling, or maintaining of animals in connection with a research facility under R.S.O. 1990, c. A.22, s. 4. Please complete this application for registration of a research/teaching/testing facility in full, as per section 4 of the Animals for Research Act.
The Director appointed under the Animals for Research Act will approve applications for registrations in accordance with the requirements of the Act.
A registration expires on the 31st day of December of the year in which registration is made. Registration must be renewed annually. If an application includes more than one research, teaching or testing facility, details must be provided for each facility in the application, and payment of fees are required.
To apply for and renew a certificate to act as an examiner for the Non-Emergency Slaughter of Food Animals on Producer Premises
To apply for renewal and update information for a certificate to act as an examiner for the Non-Emergency Slaughter of Food Animals on Producer Premises
A licence is required to carry out the community sales of consigned livestock in Ontario. This applies to an operator licensed for Class 1 or Class 2 community sales to hold an extra community sale not authorized by the licence for Class 1 or Class 2 community sales.
The licensee of a fish processing operation may consent to the revocation of their licence by a director if the operation no longer conducts regulated activities.
In accordance with section 42 of the Drainage Act, an owner of land affected by the proposed drainage works is requested to attend a council meeting to consider the final report filed with the City, County, Municipality, Town, Township or Village.
A licensee of a provincially licensed meat plant may voluntarily surrender their meat plant licence if they no longer conduct regulated activities.
You must hold a non-shopkeeper distributor licence if you meet at least one of the following:
• You sell or distribute fluid milk products and do not operate a shop.
• You operate a shop and less than 50% by volume of your fluid milk products are sold directly to consumers from your shop.
• You are a fluid milk distributor and you don’t buy your milk products from a licensed non-shopkeeper distributor.
Licences are issued for a period of up to 3 years and must be renewed before the expiry date stated on the licence.
The application for a meat plant licence includes the completion of a Business Profile. The Business Profile is to be completed by the licensee and reviewed by OMAFRA. It captures necessary information used to assess the types of regulated activities conducted by the operation and the level of inspection services required at the facility. It also requires updates and resubmission every three years and when any changes occur to any of the contained information.
In accordance with section 10(2) of the Drainage Act, notice for an owner of land affected to attend a council meeting to consider the preliminary report
For making the fee payment required by the various program areas of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness (OMAFA) for attendance at courses, participation in trade shows, or for other services e.g. Freedom of Information Requests
A licence is required to carry out the community sales of consigned livestock in Ontario.
Meat plant operators must ensure meat products are labelled with a meat inspection legend before they are shipped from the facility. The Statement of Compliance Form is completed by new meat plant licence applicants and existing clients to request a Director’s permission to reproduce the meat inspection legend.
Dairy plant licences must be renewed annually. An application for a licence for the operation of a dairy plant must be submitted at least 60 days prior to the expiry date on an existing licence (s. 95( 4), Regulation 761 - Milk and Milk Products under the Milk Act). If you have recently made any of the following changes to your operation, an application for an Amended licence for the operation of a dairy plant must also be submitted: changes to the classes or subclasses of cow's milk processed at the plant; changes to the species of animal ( cow or goat) that produce the milk processed at the plant; or changes to the type of plant operated.
A licence is required for a person in the business of receiving, collecting and/or transporting deadstock. Once the application and supporting documents are completed and submitted, the ministry will review. After it is approved, a licence will be mailed to the applicant.
This form is an application for a licence to operate a provincial meat plant under the Food Safety and Quality Act, 2001 and O. Reg. 31/05. It is used to apply for a new licence or to revise information on an existing licence.
A License is needed if you wish to operate a supply facility. Supply facility means premises that are used for breeding and rearing of animals to be used in research, teaching or testing. Please complete this application for a license to operate a supply facility under the Animals for Research Act. A license expires on the 31st day of December of the year of issue. Licenses must be renewed annually. A separate application and payment of fees is required for each supply.
For signatories of a petition for drainage works to indicate their desire to withdraw from a petition
As per the Ontario Bees Act and regulation 57, beekeepers are required to report sales of bees to the Provincial Apiarist. The ministry's Apiary Program is providing a template (this form) on its website for convenience and to help ensure that the minimum required information is reported.
