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.
You can submit a request if you wish to:
• access general records held by institutions (for example, Ontario government ministries, colleges, universities, agencies, municipalities)
• request your own personal information
• correct your personal information
• access another individual’s personal information (with appropriate authorization or consent of the individual)
A certificate of registration issued by the Provincial Apiarist is required for a person who owns or is in possession of honey bees or beekeeping equipment, but does not include a person who is in possession of new beekeeping equipment for the purpose of transportation, distribution or sale or who is a manufacturer of beekeeping equipment.
Please use this form if you have received an order or notice under one of the following pieces of legislation and are paying the amount of your order or notice, or you are applying for a review.
• Employment Standards Act, 2000
• Employment Protection for Foreign Nationals Act, 2009
This form is used by applicants seeking to become commissioners for taking affidavits in Ontario. If you are a student-at-law (articling student), or a law student working for a lawyer, please use the form "Commissioner for Taking Affidavits - Student-at-Law / Law Student Application".
This form is used by students-at-law (articling students), and by law students working for a lawyer, who seek to become commissioners for taking affidavits. If you are not a student-at-law or a law student employed by a lawyer, please use the form "Commissioner for Taking Affidavits - General Application".
This form is used by non-lawyers seeking to become notaries public in Ontario.
This information sheet instructs commissioners for taking affidavits in Ontario how to renew their appointments or make changes to the wording of their appointments (e.g. change of legal name).
This information sheet instructs non-lawyer notaries public in Ontario how to request a reappointment or make changes to the wording of their appointments (e.g. change of legal name).
No person shall make an alteration with respect to a meat plant unless the operator of the plant has given written notice of the proposed alteration to a director at least 30 days before making the alteration.
A licensee of a provincially licensed meat plant may voluntarily surrender their meat plant licence if they no longer conduct regulated activities.
A non-shopkeeper distributor licence is required to sell or distribute fluid milk products if you sell more than 50% by volume of your fluid milk products wholesale and you:
• process fluid milk products
• buy fluid milk products wholesale, or
• operate a shop where you also sell some fluid milk products directly to consumers
Licences are issued for a period of up to three years and must be renewed before the expiry date stated on the licence.
Approved meat products packaged and labelled in a provincially licensed meat plant must ensure they 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.
The OOC/OOP PA Program eForm is designed to be completed and submitted electronically for application for prior approval for full payment of insured Out-of-Country (OOC) & Out-of-Province (OOP) laboratory and genetics testing services. English and French versions can be completed online or downloaded and saved for future use.
Form is used to register new or returning Ontario residents or renew photo Health Card and contains instructions/information.
A new licence is required prior to beginning the operations of a dairy plant including:
When a facility is being licensed for the first time.
When an existing licensed plant is transferred to a new owner (transfer of ownership) An "Application for a Permit to Construct or Alter a Building Intended for Use as a Dairy Plant – For New Applicants" must be submitted at the same time as an “Application for a Licence for the Operation of a Plant”. Note, the licence will not be issued until the plant is complete and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) has confirmed, through inspection, that it meets all applicable regulations under the Milk Act (Ontario).
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.
A plant milk grader certificate is required to grade and receive raw cow milk and raw goat milk delivered to dairy processing plants in Ontario.
