Power to order castration of bulls.-

(1) The licensing officer may by order require any person keeping a bull which in his opinion has attained the prescribed age, and in respect of which no licence is for the time being in force under this Act, to have it castrated within one month from the date of the service of the order by a method and in a manner approved by the Director and specified in the order.

(2) Such castration shall be performed or caused to be performed by the licensing officer free of charge, unless the owner or other person keeping the bull desires to make his own arrangements for complying with the order.

3 [(3) A person keeping a bull, who has been required by an order under sub-section (1) to have it castrated, and the owner of the bull where such person is not the owner thereof, shall not part with the possession or custody, or transfer the ownership, of the bull until it is castrated:

Provided that the provisions of this sub-section shall not apply in the case of an owner who is not the person keeping the bull, if notice of the said order had not been given to him.]