Power to regulate and prohibit supply of livestock

(1) If the Government is of the opinion that it is necessary or expedient so to do for maintaining, supplying, or ensuring for equitable distribution of livestock and livestock products in the State, it may, by notification in the official Gazette, provide for prohibiting, restricting, or otherwise regulating the transport, movement, sale, disposal, acquisition, use, or consumption of livestock or livestock products. (2) A notification made under sub-section (1) may provide— (a) for regulating by licenses, permits, or otherwise the storage, transport, movement, sale, disposal, acquisition, use, or consumption of any of the livestock products in the State; (b) for requiring any person holding stock of any of the livestock products to sell the whole or a specified part of the stock to the Government or to an officer or agent of the Government; (c) for regulating or prohibiting any class of commercial or financial transactions relating to any livestock or livestock products if the Government is of the opinion that it is being or is about to be committed; (d) for collecting any information or statistics with a view to regulating or prohibiting any of the matters aforesaid; (e) for requiring persons engaged in this trade to mark or sell the products and the rate or fees thereof; (f) for any other matter which appears to the Government to be necessary for the purpose of this section. (g) for requiring that any categories of livestock products shall or shall not be disposed of or purchased or sold in the State except in accordance with the condition that may be published in the notification from time to time.