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.
Resident trappers are required to obtain the written permission of landowners upon whose land they wish to trap. The Landowner - Trapper Agreement form should be used by trappers to document written permission to trap on private land. This completed form may be requested by the ministry before the ministry will make any consideration of issuing a resident trapping licence to a person. Information submitted through this form may assist in assignment of harvest quotas for some species.
Section 26 of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, 1997 (FWCA) prohibits a person from using a dog to chase live game mammals or game birds during the closed hunting season for the purpose of teaching the dog hunting skills (training) or testing the dog’s hunting skills (field trial) unless the person has the authorization of the Minister. This application can be used to apply for an Authorization to Conduct Field Trials and Training which may be issued to authorize these activities during certain discrete periods of time outside of the hunting season for the game species being chased.
This form is to be completed by any licence or permit holder applying to the ministry to make a change to their licence, permit, or site plan under sections 13, 13.1, 13.2, 30.1, or 37.2 of the Act. When notification is required, this form must be circulated with the amendment application package.
Detailed submission information can be found on the form, depending on the nature of the amendment. Submit this form and any additional information to
ARAapprovals@ontario.ca or if email is unavailable, Aggregates Section, Ministry of Natural Resources, 300 Water Street, Peterborough, ON K9J 8M5.
Generally, wildlife cannot be kept in captivity in Ontario. There are some exceptions provided through authorization for persons who engage in approved activities. Persons may apply for a Wildlife Scientific Collector’s Authorization to capture, kill, temporarily possess, and/or release wildlife for educational or scientific purposes.
This is the application form for a Wildlife Scientific Collector’s Authorization. Applicants must submit this completed application form as well as any required supporting materials.
If you have questions regarding how to apply, please contact your local ministry work centre.
For more information, please visit
https://www.ontario.ca/page/keep-wild-animals-captivity.
Individuals interested in applying for an Apprentice Falconry Licence must arrange to be sponsored by a holder of a General Falconry Licence or Commercial Falconry Licence who has a least five years’ experience as a trainer, hunter, keeper and handler with raptors.
The “Certification of Sponsorship” portion of this form must be completed by the applicant’s sponsor and submitted to the MNR as part of the application for an Apprentice Falconry Licence.
Upon completion of the apprenticeship, the “Certificate of Apprenticeship” portion of this form can be completed by the Apprentice Falconry Licence holder’s sponsor. The submission of a completed Falconry Sponsor and Certification form to the MNR demonstrates the Apprentice Falconry Licence holder’s completion of the apprenticeship described in section 14 of O.Reg. 668/98: Wildlife in Captivity.
A licence to Transport Live Fish is issued under authority of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act and is required to transport live fish or live spawn, other than baitfish, that have been taken from Ontario waters. This form allows an individual to apply for this licence.
May be used to approve transport of live fish for the purposes of a fishing competitive event. Fish are then transported back into the originating lake. Issued for discrete dates and locations. Licence conditions may include holding tank water condition requirements, release of fish, record keeping requirements, record productions, among others.
This form allows individuals or incorporated organizations the ability to apply to purchase (sale and Crown patent), or rent, or use Crown land in the form of the following occupational authority types: lease, easement, licence, or land use permit. The occupational authority is a legal agreement between the ministry and tenant, and outlines who can use the land and for how long, the rents and fees and any associated conditions.
The ministry’s primary focus for the disposition of Crown land is to: support the social and economic development of municipalities and Indigenous communities, and to provide land for infrastructure, such as energy facilities, utilities, and services. Note that a specific form should be used for applications to purchase shoreline reserves or road allowances. The form may be accessed here:
https://forms.mgcs.gov.on.ca/dataset/on00541
To be filled out by long-term care (LTC) home applicants as part of the process for determination of eligibility for admission to a LTC home. This completed form is for use by Ontario Health atHome, as the designated placement co-ordinators for long-term care homes, as per the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021, s 47(1).
This poster template was produced to help licensees under Ontario’s Payday Loans Act, 2008 comply with requirements pertaining to posters for payday loan agreements under that act.
This is not an official form required by the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery; no data in this template is required to be returned to the ministry.