Swine Keeping Regulations, 1980

L.N.86 of 1980

PREVENTION OF DISEASE ORDINANCE (CAP. 59)

Swine Keeping Regulations, 1980

IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 99 of the Prevention

of Disease Ordinance, the Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture has

made the following regulations:~

These regulations may be cited as the Swine Keeping Regula-

tions. 1980.

In these regulations

"Director" means the Director of Agriculture and includes

any officer of the department duly authorised by him to act on his

behalf;

"to fatten" means to keep from the weaner to the slaughtering

stage;

"to keep" includes both to rear and to fatten;

"to rear" means to breed and rear up to the fattening stage;

and includes the selling of weaners;

"Ordinance" means the Prevention of Disease Ordinance.

No person shall keep. rear or fatten swine. whether as owner.

part-owner. or helper, unless he is the holder of a licence to do so.

A licence as provided for in the preceding regulation may be

granted by the Director upon an applica tion on the appropriate form

issued by him.

No person shall keep, rear or fatten swine in any place unless

that place is licensed as a svvine farm for hny of those specific purposes.

No licence for a swine farm shall be issued unless the require-

ments laid down in the form of application are satisfied.

The Director may at any time revoke a licence if the place

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licensed is found lacking in any of the conditions of the grant of the

licence. or if in the c.pinion of the Director there is a risk of spread of

disease.

Id-Direttur jista' f'kull żmien jirrevoka liċenza jekk il-post

liċenzjat jinsab li ma jkunx qed jissodisfaxi waħda mill-kondizzjonijiet

liċenza.

għall-għoti ta' liċenza, jew jekk fil-fehma tad-Direttur ikun hemm riskju

li jixxerred mard.

I1-liċenzi jkunu validi għal sena kaJendarja mid-data tal-ħruġ,

Licences shall be valid for one calendar year. and may be

renewed from year to year.

0) A person may be licemed to keep swine in a self-contained

farm as long as it is situated at least one hundred metres away from

any swine farm, or in not more than two places. one place being licensed

solely for rearing and the ether place being licensed solely for fattening

swine, so however that in the latter case the rearing place shall be

situated at a distance of not less than one hundred metres away from

any sVvine fam1 whatsoever. and subject to any other special conditions

as the Director may impose.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation. a self-contained farm

means a farm where once ani'113ls are bought in and it has become a

going concern, both breeding and rearing can take place and no more

swi~e nee~ to be bou 9 ht in except the occasional breeders for changing

or Improvmg the stram .

. 10. Eac? application .for the licensing of a place shall be accom-

pame.d by a SIte plan obtamed fro m the Public Works Department

showmg the place and its surrounding area within a radius of two

hundred metres.

Kull applikazzjoni biex tingħata liċenza għal post għandu

jkollha magħha pjanta tal-post miksuba mingħand id-Dipartiment tax­

Xogħlijiet Pubbliċi li turi l-post u l-lokal ta' madwaru sa distanza ta'

mitejn metru.

No extensions or alterations in any licensed place may be

carried out unless previously authorised by the Director.

No person, whether licensed or not under these regulations,

shall move or cause any swine to be moved from a licensed place to

any other place or to an abattoir, unless he has obtained permission to

do so in writing from the Director.

No place shall be licensed for the keeping, rearing or fattening

of swine unless it is situated at a distance of two hundred metres from

an inhabited area.

Every licensee shall keep a herd-book in such form as the

Director shall require.

No person shall collect or transport swill unless authorised

by the Director, nor shall any person feed swill to swine or other

animals except for such cooked swill as may be supplied to him by the

Director.

No vehicle shall be used for collectim; or transporting swill

unless authorised for that purpose by the Director, and when so autho-

rised such vehicle shall not follow a r oute which departs from that laid

down in such authorisation.

Any person who handles meat at an abattoir shall be dis-

Disqualifi-

cation.

qualified from obtaining or holding any licence under these regulations.

Licensee of

The holder of a licence for a feedmill or for a meat-processing

feedmill or

plant shall not be debarred from holding a licence under these regula-

meat-processing

tions as long as he does not allow any person who is engaged in work

plant.

on a swine farm to perform work in such a mill or plant.

A licensed swine keeper, breeder or fattener may be allowed Grinding

to have a grinding mill on his swine farm as long as the grist material mill.

is used wholly on the farm.

No licence for a swine fa rm shall be issued unless such swine

Distance from

farm is situated at a distance of two hundred metres from any feedmill.

feedmill.

No person licensed to rear swine shall acquire his initial

Acqnisition of

parent stock and any eventual replacements except from a breeding

parent stock.

station approved by the Director.

No person licensed to keep swine shall acquire weaners for Acquisition

fattening purposes from a breeder other than a licensed breeder. and of weaners.

subject to such weaners being tattooed distinctly for identification

purposes.

Save as otherwise provided for by these regulations, no

person may keep any boars for servicing.

Distances required by these regulations for the setting up of

swine farms, shall not apply to any such farms as existed prior to the

coming into force of these regulations.

A licensee under these regulations shall not be exempt from

complying with the requirement of any other law or regulation in force

from time to time.

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