Bare Act
Live-Stock Imrprovement Act, Gujarat.Year 1980
General198024 sections
This Act regulates the breeding of livestock, specifically bulls, in Gujarat to ensure the quality of cattle. It applies to villages where the previous 1933 Act was in force and allows the government to extend it to other areas. The law requires anyone keeping a bull to obtain a license from a designated livestock officer. Licenses are granted only if the bull meets specific health and quality standards to prevent the spread of disease and inferior breeding. The government can inspect bulls and revoke licenses if they are defective or diseased, aiming to improve the overall health and productivity of the state's cattle population.
- 1. Short title, commencement and application.
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Live-stock officer.
- 4. Prohibition for keeping a bull for breeding purposes.
- 5. Grant of licences.
- 6. Refusal to grant or revocation of licence.
- 7. Grant of duplicate licence.
- 8. Duration of licence.
- 9. Inspection of bulls.
- 10. Power to order castration of bulls.
- 11. Duty to produce licence.
- 12. Penalty for keeping a bull in contravention of this Act or rules or without or in contravention of licence.
- 13. Penalty for neglect or failure to comply with notice under section 6 or 10.
- 14. Penalty for neglect or failure to comply with requiation under section 9 or 11.
- 15. Power of live-stock officer to castrate.
- 16. Power of live-stock officer to inspect or mark a bull or to enter premises.
- 17. Village patel and village police members bound to assist live-stock officers.
- 18. Cognizance of offences under the Act.
- 19. Live-stock officer to be public servant.
- 20. Protection of persons acting in good faith and limitation of suits and prosecutions.
- 21. Revision.
- 22. Power of State Government to make rules.
- 23. Power of State Government to apply the provisions of this Act to buffalo-bulls.
- 24. Repeal and saving.
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