(1) If a person who keeps a bull neglects or fails to submit it for inspection, when required to do so under section 7, or to have it castrated, when required to do so under section 8, the Live-stock Officer may direct that the bull shall be castrated by a method and in a manner approved by him and marked with a prescribed mark in the prescribed manner, free of charge.
(2) If it is not known in whose ownership, possession or custody a bull is for the time baing and the fact cannot be ascertained after an inquiry in the prescribed manner, the Live-stock Officer may seize the bull or cause it to be seized and, if he is of opinion that the bull has attained the specified age and is unsuitable for breeding purposes on any of the grounds specified in sub-section (1) of section 5, he may direct that the bull shall be castrated by a method and in a manner approved by him and marked with a prescribed mark in the prescribed manner, free of charge.
(3) Every bull seized under sub-section (2) shall, after it has been castrated and marked as aforesaid where necessary, be sold by public auction or sent to a pinjrapole or infirmary recognised by the Chief Commissioner jn this behalf.
(4) If the owner of any bull seized under sub-section
(2) appears before the Live-stock Officer within such time as may be prescribed for the purpose and proves to the SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY ^77 satisfaction of the Live-stock Officer that the bull is owned by him—
(i) in case the bull has been sold by public auction, the proceeds of such sale shall be paid to the owner after deducting therefrom the costs, charges and expenses incurred for the maintenance and sale of the bull; and
(ii) in any other case, the bull shall be delivered to the owner on payment of the costs, charges and expenses incurred for its maintenance.
(5) The amount of such costs, charges and expenses shall be determined in accordance with the prescribed scale.
13. For the purposes of this Regulation, the Live-Stock Officer or any officer or person authorised by him in this behalf shall have power at all reasonable times—
(a) to inspect any bull;
(b) to mark any bull with a prescribed mark in the prescribed manner; and
(c) subject to such conditions and restrictions, if any, as may be prescribed, to enter any premises or other place where he has reeson to believe that a bull is kept.
Power of Livestock Officer to inspect or mark bulls and to enter premises.
14. It shall be the duty of all village officers and servants and of all officers of the Veterinary, Agriculture and Revenue Departments—
(a) to give immediate information to the Livestock Officer of the commission of any offence or of the intention or preparation to commit any offence punishable under this Regulation, which may come to their knowledge;
(b) to take all reasonable measures in their power to prevent the commission of any such offence which they may know or have reason to believe is about or likely to be committed; and
(e) to assist the Live-stock Officer jn carrying out the, provisions of this Regulation.
Duty of officers to report offences, etc.
15. No magistrate of the third class shall try any offence punishable under this Regulation, unless he is specially empowered by the Chief Commissioner in this behalf.
Cogn izance of offences.
16. The Live-stock Officer, all persons and officers authorised by him under this Regulation and all village officers and servants while discharging their functions under this Regulation, shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.XLV of i860.
Officers to be public servants.