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    This document summarizes the Cattle Grazing Act, which regulates and controls cattle grazing in certain areas of Uganda. It establishes that [1] "cattle" includes various livestock, and veterinary officers can restrict grazing in areas; [2] veterinary officers and district administrations can issue orders limiting the number of cattle in areas and how grazing is conducted; and [3] cattle found grazing in violation can be impounded, and owners face fines or imprisonment if they break the orders. The Minister is also authorized to make further rules to implement the Act.

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    This document summarizes the Cattle Grazing Act, which regulates and controls cattle grazing in certain areas of Uganda. It establishes that [1] "cattle" includes various livestock, and veterinary officers can restrict grazing in areas; [2] veterinary officers and district administrations can issue orders limiting the number of cattle in areas and how grazing is conducted; and [3] cattle found grazing in violation can be impounded, and owners face fines or imprisonment if they break the orders. The Minister is also authorized to make further rules to implement the Act.

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    This document summarizes the Cattle Grazing Act, which regulates and controls cattle grazing in certain areas of Uganda. It establishes that [1] "cattle" includes various livestock, and veterinary officers can restrict grazing in areas; [2] veterinary officers and district administrations can issue orders limiting the number of cattle in areas and how grazing is conducted; and [3] cattle found grazing in violation can be impounded, and owners face fines or imprisonment if they break the orders. The Minister is also authorized to make further rules to implement the Act.

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    Cattle Grazing Act

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    This document summarizes the Cattle Grazing Act, which regulates and controls cattle grazing in certain areas of Uganda. It establishes that [1] "cattle" includes various livestock, and veterinary officers can restrict grazing in areas; [2] veterinary officers and district administrations can issue orders limiting the number of cattle in areas and how grazing is conducted; and [3] cattle found grazing in violation can be impounded, and owners face fines or imprisonment if they break the orders. The Minister is also authorized to make further rules to implement the Act.

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    CHAPTER 42

    THE CATTLE GRAZING ACT.

    Arrangement of Sections.

    Section
    1. Interpretation.
    2. Prohibition, etc. of grazing.
    3. Impounding of cattle.
    4. Report of impounding of cattle to district commissioner.
    5. Rules.
    6. Offence and penalty.
    7. Application.
    CHAPTER 42

    THE CATTLE GRAZING ACT.

    Commencement: 31 October, 1945.

    An Act to regulate and control cattle grazing.

    1. Interpretation.

    In this Act—
    (a) “cattle” means bulls, cows, oxen, calves, sheep and goats;
    (b) “veterinary officer” means any person or class of persons
    declared by the commissioner of livestock and entomology by
    statutory instrument to be a veterinary officer for the purposes of
    this Act.

    2. Prohibition, etc. of grazing.

    (1) No person shall cause or permit any cattle belonging to him or her
    or under his or her control to graze on any land in respect of which there is
    in force an order made by a veterinary officer prohibiting grazing or in
    respect of which there is in force any order or rule made by a district
    administration prohibiting grazing.

    (2) A veterinary officer, with respect to land within his or her area or
    a district administration, with respect to land within the area of its
    jurisdiction, may make orders—
    (a) prescribing the maximum number of cattle that may be grazed on
    any particular area of land;
    (b) prescribing the maximum number of cattle that any person may
    be permitted to graze on any particular area of land,
    and every such order shall be published either by affixing a copy of it on a
    conspicuous part of the area of land referred to in the order, or in any other
    manner reasonably calculated to bring the order to the notice of any person
    who may be affected by it.

    3. Impounding of cattle.

    (1) Any cattle found grazing on any land in contravention of section


    2 may be impounded either by the veterinary officer or by the district
    administration in such place or places as he or she or it may deem fit, and the
    cattle may, if not claimed by the owner within six days, be sold by the
    veterinary officer or district administration and the proceeds of the sale
    disposed of as the Minister may direct.

    (2) In the case of cattle claimed by their owners before the expiry of
    the six days specified in subsection (1), the veterinary officer or district
    administration may retain such number of them as he or she or it may deem
    fit as security for any fine to be paid in the event of the owner’s conviction
    or as security for payment of all costs involved in impounding, herding and
    maintaining the cattle.

    4. Report of impounding of cattle to district commissioner.

    Any district administration which impounds cattle under this Act shall
    immediately report the impounding to the district commissioner.

    5. Rules.

    The Minister may make rules for better carrying out the provisions of this
    Act.

    6. Offence and penalty.

    Any person who contravenes any order made under section 2 or any rule
    made under section 5 commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine
    not exceeding one thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a period not
    exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

    7. Application.

    This Act shall apply only to such areas of Uganda as the Minister may by
    statutory instrument declare.

    History: Cap. 223.

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