CONTROL OF LIVESTOCK REGULATIONS *

CONTROL OF LIVESTOCK

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 117.09

CONTROL OF LIVESTOCK REGULATIONS *

28th January, 1957

GOVERNMENT NOTICES 67 and 68 of 1957, consolidated, as amended

by Legal Notice 409 of 2007.

The title of these regulations is Control of Livestock

Regulations.

In these regulations ''livestock'' means any class of

bovines, ovines, caprines, swine and equines.

(1) Where any person acquires in any manner whatsoever,

any livestock or where the number of livestock in his possession is

increased by birth, that person shall within three days make a report

at the nearest Police station of the acquisition or the increase in the

number of livestock.

(2) Such report shall contain an indication of the kind and

number of livestock born or acquired, the total number of each kind

of live-stock then in the possession of the person making the report,

the place or places where such total number of livestock is to be

kept and, in case of an acquisition, the name and address of the

transferor.

(3) Any reduction in the number of livestock, whether by

death, slaughter or any other cause, shall be reported within three

days at the nearest Police station.

The Director of Agriculture or any other officer of his

department authorised by him may enter any place in which he has

reason to believe that livestock is being kept.

Whoever fails to make a report required under regulation 3,

or who in making a report willingly or recklessly gives any

information which is false in a relevant particular or omits to give

relevant information, or who obstructs, impedes or assists to

obstruct or impede the Director of Agriculture or any officer of his

department in the execution of these Regulations, shall be guilty of

an offence and shall be liable to a fine (multa) of not less than fifty-

eight euros and twenty-three cents (58.23) but not exceeding four

hundred and sixty-five euros and eighty-seven cents (465.87).

These Regulations shall apply to the Islands of Gozo,

Comino and Cominotto.

*These Regulations have been repealed by Act XXXIV of 2023.