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PRAIRIE DOG AND CERTAIN OTHER RODENTS IMPORTATION PROHIBITION REGULATIONS
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The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, pursuant to section 14 of the Health of Animals Act¹, hereby makes the annexed Prairie Dog and Certain Other Rodents Importation Prohibition Regulations.

¹ S.C. 1990, c. 21

PRAIRIE DOG AND CERTAIN OTHER RODENTS IMPORTATION PROHIBITION REGULATIONS

prohibition

1. No person shall import into Canada or any Canadian port during the period beginning on the day on which these Regulations come into force and ending on January 31, 2008, any of the following:

(a) prairie dogs (Cynomys sp.), African Giant Pouched Rats (Cricetomys gambianus) or any squirrel of the family Sciuridae, from any country; and

(b) any other member of the order Rodentia from Africa.

coming into force

2. These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.