Prohibition to purchase or sell unvaccinated cattle

No professional dealer in cattle shall purchase or sell cattle [from or to any person]4 and no person shall sell cattle to such dealer, unless such cattle have been vaccinated against contagious disease within 18 months immediately preceding the date of purchase or sale, as the case may be, or within such longer period so preceding as may be prescribed.

9-A. Special provision for prevention of rinderpest

1. (1) The State Government or such officer as it may authorise in this behalf may, by notification, declare any area to be a compulsory rinderpest inoculation area. Every such notification shall specify the limits of the area so declared and the fact of the issue of such notification shall be made widely known in such area in the manner prescribed.
2. (2) Upon the issue of a notification under sub-section (1), all cattle in the said area as are above six months of age at the date of publication of the notification shall become liable for being compulsorily inoculated against rinderpest and marked for the purpose of identification in the prescribed manner.
3. (3) As soon as may be, after the issue of the notification under sub-section (1), the Veterinary Officer appointed for the compulsory rinderpest inoculation area shall visit every village in the said area for the purpose of carrying out inoculation of cattle of such village against rinderpest and marking them in the prescribed manner. The date on which the Veterinary Officer is to visit the village shall be announced in advance by beat of drum throughout the village.
4. (4) On the date announced under sub-section (3), every person in charge of cattle which are liable to compulsory inoculation under sub-section (2), shall produce or cause to be produced the same before the Veterinary Officer for inoculation against rinderpest and for being marked in the prescribed manner.
5. (5) Every person in charge of cattle which are liable to compulsory inoculation under sub-section (2), shall give reasonable assistance to the Veterinary Officer and his subordinates for carrying out inoculation and marking of such cattle.
6. (6) If on the date announced under sub-section (3), any person in charge of cattle which are liable to compulsory inoculation under sub-section (2), omits to produce them for inoculation before the Veterinary Officer, he may without prejudice to any other action that may be taken against such person under this Act for such omission, use such reasonable force as may be required for the purpose of carrying out the inoculation and marking of such cattle.
7. (7) The State Government may make rules for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section and such rules may, among other things, empower a Veterinary Officer to take such measures as may be necessary for the enforcement of this Act and the rules and determine in what manner and by whom any expenses incurred for the enforcement of this Act and the rules shall be defrayed. 9-B. Report of contagious disease
8. (1) Every owner or peson in charge or having control of any cattle, who has reason to believe that such cattle is infective shall forthwith report the fact to the Mukaddam or Patel, as the case may be, of the village in which the cattle is kept or if the cattle is kept in any other place and if such place has a Veterinary dispensary to the Veterinary Officer of the dispensary or to the secretary or executive officer of the local authority having jurisdiction over the area in which the cattle is kept.
9. (2) Every Mukaddam, Patel, secretary or executive officer of the local authority concerned who becomes aware of any case of infective cattle whether from report received under sub-section
10. (1) or otherwise shall forthwith send intimation of the same to the appropriate Veterinary Assistant Surgeon.
11. (3) Whenever a Veterinary Officer receives a report under sub-section
12. (1) or sub-section
13. (2) or has reason to believe that any cattle within his jurisdiction is infective, he shall proceed as soon as possible to the place where the cattle is and shall take such action as may be prescribed for the declaration of the area as infected area and for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act in that area, and shall send a report of the action taken to such authority as may be prescribed. 9-C. Declaration of infected areas
14. (1) The State Government or such officer as it may authorise in this behalf may, by notification, published in the manner prescribed declare any area in which any contagious disease has broken out, or any area within which in the opinion of the State Government, or such officer, there is a danger of the spread of any such disease, to be an infected area.
15. (2) Every notification under sub-section
16. (1) shall specify the limits of the area which is declared to be an infected area and shall also specify the contagious disease in respect of which the area is declared to be an infected area. 9-D. Power to take special measures and make rules as to contagious diseases
17. (1) On the issue of a notification under section 9-C, the State Government or the officer authorised under the said section may take, or require or empower an person to take, such measures and enforce such rules to be observed by the public or by any person or class of persons as the State Government or such officer deems necessary to prevent the outbreak of contagious disease or the spread thereof, and may determine in what manner and by whom any expenses incurred (including compensation, if any), shall be defrayed.
18. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, the State Government may take measures and make rules for—
    • (a) prohibition of movement of cattle, cattle carcasses, or articles appertaining to them, into or out of infected areas;
    • (b) preventive vaccination or inoculation of cattle in infected areas and marking of cattle for purposes of identification
    • (c) compulsory segregation and treatment of cattle in infected areas.