(a) fixing minimum standards for the construction, maintenance, cleanliness, sanitation and operation of plants, with power to adopt with or without modification published regulations, rules, codes or standards made by Canada or a province of Canada or another country or state, or institution or body recognized as a publisher of codes of conduct and standards;
(b) providing for the certification or licensing of plants and for the revocation, cancellation and renewal of certificates or licences issued, and prescribing the fees for certificates or licences and their renewals;
(c) for the purposes of section 3, designating plants to which this Act applies which may be designated singly, by class or by circumstances;
(d) prescribing, for the purpose of paragraph 4(a), circumstances under which animals or classes of animals may be slaughtered without receiving the prior approval of inspectors;
(e) providing for the inspection of plants, of animals before slaughter and of meat subsequent to slaughter, prescribing the fees to be paid by owners or operators of plants and establishments for all inspections, with power to prescribe different fees for different types and classes of inspection;
(f) respecting packaging of meat and stamping of meat or packers of meat inspected under this Act and the regulations;
(g) exempting an animal or class of animal, or the meat of an animal or class of meat of an animal from the operation of this Act;
(h) prescribing additional powers and duties of inspectors;
(i) generally, to give effect to the purpose of this Act.