§ 173

(1) The Minister must cancel the recognition of a foreign state’s inspection system referred to in section 170 if (a) no meat products or live or raw shellfish to which the system applies have been exported to Canada from the foreign state in the previous five years; (b) the circumstances that gave rise to a suspension have not been remedied within 12 months after the day on which the recognition was suspended; or (c) the foreign state requests the cancellation in writing.

(2) The Minister must cancel the recognition of a system of manufacturing, processing, treating, preserving, handling, testing, grading, coding, slaughtering, storing, packaging or labelling referred to in section 171 if (a) the recognition of the inspection system to which it is subject has been cancelled; (b) no meat products that were manufactured, processed, treated, preserved, handled, tested, graded, coded, stored, packaged or labelled using the system have been exported to Canada from the foreign state in the previous five years; (c) circumstances that gave rise to a suspension have not been remedied within 12 months after the day on which the recognition was suspended; or (d) the foreign state in which the establishment is located requests the cancellation in writing.

(3) The Minister must notify the foreign state in writing of the cancellation under subsection (1) or (2), the grounds for the cancellation and the date on which it takes effect.

(4) The cancellation takes effect on the day on which the notice is issued.