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.
This Application for a Well Licence, under the policy "Approach to Licensing Private Gas Wells", is used to apply for a licence for an existing, operating private gas well in Ontario.
A complete submission includes:
- Well Evaluation Form
- Private Gas Well Licence Application Form
- Well Location Sketch: Existing Private Gas Well
A well licence issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) is required to drill, operate, deepen, alter or enter a well, or engage in any activity on or in a well. A complete Application for a Well Licence form must be submitted for review by the ministry, and the Minister may grant a licence.
A complete submission includes the following depending on the purpose for the licence:
New drill
- Application for a Well Licence
- Location plan
- Drilling program
- Application fee
Existing well
- Application for a Well Licence
- Well Location sketch
- Drilling program, if well is to be deepened or re-entered
- Application fee
Plugging
- Application for a Well Licence
- Well Location sketch
- Application fee
This form is used to collect details about the private well, completed by a Qualified Person.
A complete submission includes:
- Well Evaluation Form
- Well Location Sketch
- Ownership documentation
- Four photos of the well from N, S, E, W.
This form (Part 2) is to be used by Commercial Bait Harvesters that have BHAs within the Lake Simcoe watershed and want to have their Emerald Shiners tested for VHS as part of the Lake Simcoe Emerald Shiner Testing Program, which would enable Emerald Shiners that test negative for VHS to be transported out of the Southern Bait Management Zone and into the Central BMZ and the Northeast Testing Program Area. Applicants need to submit both Part 1 and Part 2 of the application for screening and approval. This form (Part 2) provides details on each of the Holding Facilities identified in Part 1.
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.