West Pakistan Goat (Restriction) Rules 1961

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THE WEST PAKISTAN GOATS RESTRICTIONS RULES, 1961

[Gazette of West Pakistan, Part I, 15th September 1961]

No. I-I-17-SOAHII (AGRI)/61.---In exercise of the powers conferred by section 12 of the


West Pakistan Goat (Restriction) Ordinance, 1959, and in suppression of the West Pakistan
Croats (Restriction) Rules, 1959, published with the West Pakistan Government, Planning and
Development Department Notification No. 1-1-17- SOAH-II (PD)/59, dated the 30th September,
1959, the Government of West Pakistan is pleased to make the following rules, namely: ---

1. (1) These rules may be called the West Pakistan Goat (Restriction) Rules.
1961.

(2) Thy shall come into force at once.

2. In these rules:---

(a) “Ordinance” means the West Pakistan Goat (Restriction) Ordinance, 1 959; and

(b) “Local Area” means the area in respect of which a declaration has been made
under section 3 of the Ordinance.

3. A notification under section 3 of the Ordinance shall be published in the Official


Gazette and at least two newspapers having wide publicity in the local area and copies thereof
shall be affixed on prominent places in the local area.

4. Permission for keeping goats on stall-feeding may be given under the proviso to
section 3 of the Ordinance and any person so desiring may apply to the Union Council of the
area either in person or by registered post stating the number of such goats. Such application
shall be made within eighteen months of the publication of the notification under section 3 of the
Ordinance. Orders on the application shall be conveyed by registered post or copy thereof served
on the application personally, within one week of the receipt of the application. If the application
has been made within the time allowed; the keeping of goats up to the number applied for, shall
not, till receipt of such orders, be treated as unlawful.

5. A Deputy Commissioner may in respect of his district, specify the routes along
which goats belonging to powindas shall move or be conducted in the said district and may
impose such other restrictions on their movements as he may deem fit.

6. (1) Of the number of goats and sheep slaughtered or attempted to be


slaughtered in a slaughter-house on any day the number of goats shall not be less than eighty
percent.
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(2) Any person or local authority controlling a slaughter-house shall maintain or


cause to be maintained a record of daily slaughtered and shall submit a monthly return to the
Assistant Director of Animal Husbandry.

(3) The Superintendent of the slaughter-house or Meat Inspector or other officer


required to check the working of the slaughter-house shall regulate and supervise the slaughter of
goats in accordance with sub-rule (1).

(4) Any officer of the Animal Husbandry Department not below the rank of
Veterinary Assistant Surgeon, may enter a slaughter-house and check whether the provisions of
the Ordinance and of these rules have been complied with.

7. Whoever contravenes the provisions of rule 5 or any condition of permit issued


thereunder of the provisions of sub-rule (1) or sub-rule (2) of rule 6 shall be punished under
section 6 of the Ordinance within the penalty prescribed therein.

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