Safekeeping - Re: Definition (POA)
From Riverview Legal Group
Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act, 2019, S.O. 2019, c. 13
44 (1) An animal welfare inspector who is lawfully in any place may, without a warrant, seize any animal or thing that he or she has reasonable grounds to believe,
- (a) has been obtained by the commission of an offence under this Act;
- (b) has been used in the commission of an offence under this Act;
- (c) will afford evidence of the commission of an offence under this Act; or
- (d) is intermixed with a thing referred to in clause (a), (b) or (c).
- (2) If the animal welfare inspector is in the place pursuant to a warrant, subsection (1) applies to any animal or thing, whether or not it is specified in the warrant.
- (3) An animal welfare inspector shall deliver any animal or thing that he or she seizes to a person authorized by the Chief Animal Welfare Inspector for safekeeping.
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- (6) An animal welfare inspector who has seized an animal or thing under this section shall comply with the requirements of section 158.2 of the Provincial Offences Act.
- (7) Any animal or thing seized and not forfeited under this section shall be returned to the person from whom it was seized if,
- (a) a charge is not laid at the conclusion of the investigation; or
- (b) a charge is laid but, when the charge is finally disposed of, the defendant is acquitted or the charge is dismissed or withdrawn.
References
- ↑ Provincial Offences Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.33, <https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90p33>, retrieved 2021-04-23