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    "id": 16205,
    "slug": "goa-animal-preservation-act-1995",
    "title": "Goa Animal Preservation Act, 1995",
    "short_title": "Goa Animal Preservation Act, 1995",
    "act_number": "(Goa Act No. 7 of 1996)",
    "act_year": 1995,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Goa Animal Preservation Act, 1995",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"Competent authority\" means a person or body of persons appointed by the Government under section 3 to perform the functions of competent authority under this Act;\n(b) \"Government\" means the Government of Goa;\n(c) \"Official Gazette\" means the Official Gazette of the Government;\n(d) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(e) \"Schedule\" means the Schedule appended to this Act;\n(f) \"Scheduled animal\" means any animal specified in the Schedule and the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, add to the Schedule any species of animals, after considering the necessity for preservation of that species of animals, and the provisions of section 3 of the Goa, Daman and Diu Laying of Rules before Legislature Act, 1980 (Act 5 of 1980) in so far as they relate to laying before, and modification by, the Legislature, shall apply in relation to such notification, as they apply to any rule referred to in that section.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Appointment of competent authority.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Restrictions on slaughter of scheduled animals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the scheduled animal, whether male or female, is or is likely to become economical for the purpose of draught or any kind of agricultural operations;\n(b) the scheduled animal, if male, is or is likely to become economical for the purpose of breeding;\n(c) the scheduled animal, if female, is or is likely to become economical for the purpose of giving milk or bearing off-spring.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Scheduled animals to be slaughtered at specified places only.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Power to enter, search and seize property without warrant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "6A",
            "title": "6A. Custody of seized property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "6B",
            "title": "6B. Seized property to be reported to the concerned Magistrate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6C. Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 6.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Prohibition of sale of beef.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[7A. Registration of persons selling beef.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Penalties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Offences under this Act to be cognizable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "9A",
            "title": "9A. Power to arrest without warrant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Abetments and attempts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Persons exercising powers under this Act deemed to be public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Protection of persons acting in good faith under this Act or Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Power to grant exemption under this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any animal (other than cow) operated upon for vaccine, lymph or serum at any institution established, conducted or recognized by the Government;\n(b) any animal (other than cow) operated upon for any experimental or research purposes at the institution referred to in clause (a);\n(c) any animal (other than cow):-\n(i) slaughter of which is certified by a veterinary surgeon authorized in this behalf by the Government, to be necessary in the interest of the public health;\n(ii) which is suffering from any disease which is certified by such veterinary surgeon as being contagious and dangerous to other animals:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Delegation of powers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to any local authority, its powers and functions under section 3 within the local area subject to the jurisdiction of such local authority;\n(b) to any officer of the Government, its powers and functions under sub-section (3) of section 4 as it may deem necessary or expedient.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Provisions to be in addition to those of other Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the form of the certificates under sections 4 and 7;\n(b) the amount of the fee to be paid for such certificates;\n(c) the conditions subject to which this Act shall not apply to any scheduled animal under section 13;\n(d) any other matter which is or may be prescribed.\nSchedule\n[Section 2 (f)]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "goa033",
        "Act Number": "(Goa Act No. 7 of 1996)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1995",
        "Short Title": "Goa Animal Preservation Act, 1995",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}