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Punjab Livestock Improvement Rules, 1958

The Punjab Livestock Improvement Rules, 1958

Published vide Punjab Government Notification No. 3989-Vety-59/2541, dated the 23rd May, 1959

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  1. Short title. - These rules be called the Punjab Livestock Improvement Rules, 1958.
  2. For the purpose of section 2(b) of the Punjab Livestock Improvement Act, 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the Act), an uncastrated male calf of the age of two years and six months or above shall be regarded as a bull.
  3. Every person who, in any local area to which the Act applies keeps any bull which is not branded with a distinguishing mark, shall give information thereof to the Livestock Officer within fifteen days, and where a bull is brought into such area after the enforcement of the Act therein, then within fifteen days from the date on which the bull is brought into that area.
  4. Immediately after the bull has been certified as approved under section 6 of the Act, the Livestock Officer of the local area (other than the Director) shall apprise the Deputy Director or District Animal Husbandry Officer concerned of such approval. The bull shall be caused to be branded by the Veterinary Assistant or Veterinary Assistant Surgeon with mark 'A' on the left hand thigh except where the bull is supplied from the Government State the Livestock Farm Hissar.
  5. If, after inspection, the local Veterinary Assistant or Veterinary Assistant Surgeon is satisfied that the bull is [unsuitable]for breeding purposes in a local area, he shall report the matter to the Deputy Director and the District Animal Husbandry Officer concerned and on hearing from the latter, he shall castrate the bull immediately and so as to rander it [unsuitable] for breeding purpose and if any such bull is branded with mark 'A' it shall be crossed with mark (X).

[6. (1) For carrying out the proposes of the Act, the Livestock Officer of the area or any other officer of the Animal Husbandry Department authorised in this behalf by the Director of Animal Husbandry, Haryana shall have the power at all reasonable times to enter and inspect any house, land or building or other place in which or in respect whereof he has reason to suspect that a bull is kept or possessed :

Provided that no entry or inspection in any house, land, building or other place shall be made after sun-set and before sun-rise.]

[7. The Livestock Officer concerned of the local area shall maintain a register in the following form] :-

Form

Sr. No. Name of the owner or keeper of the bull with hiss address Age when branded Date of branding or marking Price Description marks Height Girth Length Place Remarks
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
                     

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