The Gujarat Live-stock Improvement Act, 1980

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    "title": "The Gujarat Live-stock Improvement Act, 1980",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Live-stock Improvement Act, 1980",
    "act_number": "25",
    "act_year": 1980,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
    "law_status": "repealed",
    "enactment_date": "1980-10-22",
    "description": "The Gujarat Live-stock Improvement Act, 1980",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title, commencement and application.",
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            "content": "(1) This Act may be called the Gujarat Live-stock Improvement Act, 1980\r\n(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the\r\nOfficial Gazette, appoint.\r\n(3) It applies in the first instance to all those villages in which the Bombay Live-stock\r\nImprovement Act, 1933, the said Act as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of this\r\nState or, as the case may be, the said Act as extended to the Kutch area of the State was in\r\nforce immediately before the commencement of this Act and the State Government may, in\r\nconsultation with the Director of Animal Husbandry, Gujarat State, by notification in the\r\nOfficial Gazette apply the provisions of this Act to any other village or local area with effect\r\nfrom such date as may be specified in the notification.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "\r\n(1) \"appointed day\" in relation to a village or local area means the date on which this Act is\r\nmade applicable to such village or local area.\r\n",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. (a)",
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            "content": "(2) \" \"cow\" includes a heifer;\r\n",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. (b)",
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            "content": "(3) \"licence\" means a licence granted Wider section 5;\r\n",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. (c)",
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            "content": "(4) \"live-stock officer\" means an officer or person appointed or invested with powers under\r\nsection 3;\r\n",
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            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. (d)",
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            "content": "(5) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules;",
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            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. (e)",
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            "content": "(6) \"rules\" means rules made under section 22;",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. (f)",
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            "content": "(7) \"village\" means a village as defined in the Bombay Land Revenue Code 1879; and",
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            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. (g)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(8) \"a person is said to keep a bull\" if such person owns the bull or has the bull in his\r\npossession or custody",
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            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Live-stock Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint any officer to be a\r\nlive-stock officer and assign to such officer such powers and duties under this Act, as it may deem\r\nfit.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4. Prohibition for keeping a bull for breeding purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "Section 5. Grant of licences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6. Refusal to grant or revocation of licence.",
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            "content": "(1) Subject to rules, the live-stock officer authorised to grant the licence may refuse to\r\ngrant or may revoke a licence, if in the opinion of such officer, the bull appears to be-\r\n(a) of defective or inferior conformation and likely to be get defective or inferior\r\nprogeny; or\r\n(b) permanently affected with any contagious or infectious disease; or\r\n(c) permanently affected with any other disease rendering the bull unsuitable for\r\nbreeding purposes; or\r\n",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7. Grant of duplicate licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "When the live-stock officer granting the licence is satisfied that a licence granted under\r\nsection 5 has been lost or destroyed, such officer may, subject to such conditions as may be\r\nprescribed, issue to the holder of the licence a duplicate thereof, and thereupon all the\r\nprovisions of this Act with respect to the licence shall apply to the duplicate as if it were the original\r\nlicence.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "Section 8. Duration of Licence.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "Section 9. Inspection of bulls.",
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            "content": "Any person who keeps a bull shall, at any reasonable time, either at the place where the bull is for\r\nthe time being or at any other reasonable place, submit the bull for inspection by any live-stock\r\nofficer when required by such officer to do so and render all reasonable assistance to that officer for\r\nthe purpose of inspection",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "Section 10. Power to order castration of bulls.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) A live-stock officer may, by notice served in the prescribed manner, required that any bull\r\nwhich has attained the prescribed age at the date when the notice is served and in respect of\r\nwhich no licence is for the tune being in force under this Act, shall be castrated in a\r\nprescribed manner within one month after the notice takes effect. Such castration shall, if the\r\nowner or other person who keeps the bull requires, be performed or caused to be performed\r\nby the livestock officer free of charge.\r\n(2) For the purpose of this section a notice shall be served on the owner of the bull or on any\r\nother person who keeps the bull.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "Section 11. Duty to produce licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "It shall be the duty of any person who for the time being keeps a bull, if a licence is in force in\r\nrespect of the bull, to produce the licence-\r\n(a) within a reasonable time on demand made by a live-stock officer or any other officer\r\nauthorised by general or special order by the State Government in this behalf in any place\r\nwhere the bull is for the time being,\r\n(b) before a cow is served by a bull on demand made by the person in charge of the cow",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "Section 12. Penalty for keeping a bull in contravention of this Act or rules or without or in contravention of licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Whoever in contravention of this Act or any rule or order made under this Act or of any terms,\r\nconditions or restrictions of a licence keeps a bull shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine\r\nwhich may extend to one hundred rupees.",
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            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "Section 13. Penalty for neglect or failure to comply with notice under section 6 or 10 .",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Whoever neglects or fails to comply with a notice served in accordance with section 6 or 10\r\nshall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "Section 14. Penalty for neglect or failure to comply with requisition under section 9 .",
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            "content": ". Whoever neglects or fails to submit a bull for inspection when required by a live-stock\r\nofficer for inspection under section 9 or whoever fails to produce a licence when required to do\r\nso in accordance with the provisions of section 11 shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine\r\nwhich may extend to fifty rupees.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "Section 15. Power of live-stock officer to castrate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) Whenever an offence under section 14 has been committed, or whenever any bull has not\r\nbeen castrated in compliance with the notice served under section 10, it shall be competent to\r\na live-stock officer to castrate or cause to be castrated in the prescribed manner, the bull in\r\nrespect of which such offence was committed or such notice was served, as the case may be.\r\nSuch castration shall be performed or caused to be performed by a live-stock officer free of\r\ncharge.\r\n(2) It shall also be competent to a live-stock officer to seize any bull, if the person, in whose\r\nownership, possession or custody it is, for the time being, is not known or cannot be\r\nascertained after an inquiry in the prescribed manner. On such seizure the live-stock officer\r\nmay, if he is of opinion that such bull has attained the prescribed age or is suffering from any\r\nof the defects or diseases specified in section 6, direct that the said bull shall be-\r\n(a) castrated in the prescribed manner, and\r\n(b) sold by public auction or sent to a panjarapol:\r\nProvided that if the owner of the said bull appears within fifteen days of, such\r\nseizure and proves to the satisfaction of the live-stock officer that the said bull is of\r\nhis ownership, the said bull-\r\n(i) if not sold by public auction, or\r\n(ii) if sent to a panjarapol,\r\nshall be delivered to such owner on payment of the costs, charges and expenses\r\nincurred for the maintenance of the said bull and determined in the prescribed\r\nmanner, or\r\n(iii) if sold by public auction, the proceeds of such sale shall be paid to such\r\nowner after deducting therefrom the costs, charges, and expenses incurred for\r\nthe maintenance and sale of the said bull and determined in the prescribed\r\nmanner.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "Section 16. Power of live-stock officer to inspect or mark a bull or to enter premises.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "For the purposes of this Act, a live-stock\" officer shall have power an all reasonable times—\r\n(a) to inspect any bull,\r\n(b) to mark any bull with any prescribed mark in the prescribed manner\r\n(c) to enter any premises or other place in the prescribed manner where he has reason to\r\nbelieve that a bull is kept.",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "Section 17. Village Patel and village police members bound to assist live-stock officers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "The Village patel and all members of the village police and all officers of the departments of\r\nrevenue, agriculture, animal husbandry and veterinary science or of such other department as the\r\nState Government may direct shall be bound-\r\n(a) to give immediate information to a live-stock officer of the commission of any offence,\r\nor the intention or preparation to commit any offence punish able under this Act which may\r\ncome to their knowledge;\r\n(b) to take all reasonable measures in their power to prevent the commission of any such\r\noffence which they know or have reason to believe is about to be committed; and\r\n(c) to assist any live-stock officer in carrying out the provisions of this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "Section 18. Cognizance of offences under the Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "No Court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act, except on a complaint made by a\r\nlive-stock officer or any person authorised by such officer in that behalf or upon a report in writing\r\nmade by any police officer under section 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "Section 19. Live-stock officer to be public servant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Every live-stock officer shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21\r\nof the Indian Penal Code.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "Section 20. Protection of persons acting in good faith and limitation of suit and prosecution.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall be instituted against any person for\r\nanything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or the rules.\r\n(2) No suit shall be instituted against the State Government, and, no prosecution or suit shall\r\nlie against any live-stock officer in respect of anything done or alleged to have been done, in\r\npursuance of this Act, unless the suit or prosecution has been instituted within four months\r\nfrom the date of the act complained of.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "Section 21. Revision.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": " The State Government may call for and examine the record of any order or proceedings of any\r\nlive-stock officer for the purpose of satisfying itself as to the legality or propriety of any order passed\r\nby such officer and as to the regularity of the proceedings of such officer. If in any case it shall\r\nappear to the State Government that any order or proceedings so called for should be modified,\r\nannulled or reversed, it may pass such order as it may deem fit.",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "Section 22. Power of State Government to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for\r\ncarrying out the purposes of this Act.\r\n(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules\r\nmay be made-\r\n(a) for the whole or any part of the State of Gujarat, and\r\n(b) to provide for all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be\r\nprescribed by rules.\r\n(3) The power to make rules conferred by this section shall be subject to the condition of the\r\nrules being made after previous publication.\r\n(4) All rules made under this section shall be laid for not less than thirty days before the State\r\nLegislature as soon as possible after they are made, and shall be subject to rescission or to\r\nsuch modifications as the State Legislature may make during the session in which they are so\r\nlaid or the session immediately following.\r\n(5) Any rescission or modification so made by the State Legislature shall be published in the\r\nOfficial Gazette and shall thereupon take effect.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "Section 23. Power of State Government to apply the provisions of this Act to buffalo-bulls.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": ". The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that all or any of the\r\nprovisions of this Act which are in force in any village or other local area shall apply to buffalobulls in such village or local area from the date specified in such modification and thereupon the\r\nreference to bulls and cows in the provisions of this Act so applied shall be construed as references\r\nto buffalo-bulls and buffalo-cows respectively and this shall apply accordingly.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "Section 24. Repeal and saving.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "On the application of this Act to any village or local area-\r\n(a) the Bombay Live-stock Improvement Act, 1933 as in force in the Bombay area of the\r\nState,\r\n(b) the Bombay Live-stock Improvement Act, 1933 as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra\r\narea of the State,\r\n(c) the Bombay Live-stock Improvement Act, 1933 as extended to the Kutch area of the\r\nState,\r\nshall stand repealed in relation to such village or, as the case may be, local area:\r\nProvided that such repeal shall not affect-\r\n(a) the previous operation of the Acts so repealed or of anything duly done or\r\nsuffered thereunder;\r\n(b) any right, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the Acts so\r\nrepealed;\r\n(c) any penalty or punishment incurred or imposed in respect of any offence\r\ncommitted under the Acts so repealed; or\r\n(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right,\r\nobligation or liability, penalty or punishment as aforesaid,\r\nand any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or\r\nenforced and any such penalty or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been\r\npassed:\r\nProvided further that subject to the succeeding proviso, anything done or any action\r\ntaken under the provisions of any of the Acts so repealed shall be deemed to have been done\r\nor taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act, and shall continue in force\r\naccordingly, unless and until it is superseded by anything done or any action taken under this\r\nAct:\r\nProvided also that the rules prescribed under the Bombay Live-stock Improvement\r\nAct, 1933, and in force on the appointed day shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with\r\nthe provisions of this Act, be deemed to be the rules made under section 22 of this Act, for\r\nthe whole of the State with effect from the appointed day.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "198025",
        "Act Number": "25",
        "Enactment Date": "1980-10-22",
        "Act Year": "1980",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Live-stock Improvement Act, 1980",
        "Department": "Agriculture, Farmer Welfare and Co-operation Department",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:48"
}