CATTLE BREEDING RULES *

CATTLE BREEDING

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 97.01

CATTLE BREEDING RULES *

20th January, 1939

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 38 of 1939, as amended by Legal Notice 408

of 2007.

The title of these Rules is Cattle Breeding Rules.

Applications for a licence to keep a bull for stud purposes

shall contain the following particulars -

(a) the name, surname and address of the owner;

(b) the age and breed of the bull;

(c) the place where the bull is kept;

(d) the date on which the application is made and the

signature or mark of applicants.

The Director of Agriculture may refuse, suspend or

withdraw any licence in any of the following cases

(a)

if, in his opinion, a bull is unfit for service;

(b) if, in his opinion, the bull or the premises where the

bull is kept, are not maintained in a sufficiently clean

condition;

(c) if the district where the bull is kept is already

sufficiently provided with service bulls, or

(d) if the provisions of the Cattle Breeding Ordinance or

any of these Rules, have not been observed.

All licences shall be valid until the 30th June of each year.

Applications for renewal of a licence shall be made at least

a fortnight before the date of the expiration of the licence.

The licence is personal to the owner.

The owner of any licensed bull shall keep a service book

for every bull so licensed and shall record therein the following

particulars

(a) name, surname and address of the owner of any cow

served by the bull;

(b) the breed of the cow so served;

(c) the date of service.

Such book shall be kept available for inspection by the

Director of Agriculture and by any other officer acting on his

behalf.

No fee for service shall exceed thirty-five cents (0.35) for

each service.

*These Rules have been repealed by Act XXXIV of 2023.