In these rules, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context.
(a). “The Act” means the Bihar Preservation and Improvement of Animals Act, 1955;
(b). “Form” means a form set out in the Schedule;
(c ). “Prescribed authority” means the authority prescribed under these rules;
(d). “Schedule” means a schedule appended in these rules;
(e). “Section” means a section of the Act;
(f). “Gosadan” means a place or institution maintained or recognized by the State Government for the purposes of keeping useless, unproductive or invalid animals and includes a Goshala within the meaning of the Bihar Goshala Act, 1950 (Bihar Act 28 of 1950),
(g). “Chairman” means the Chairman of District Board, Local Board, Municipality, Notified Area Committee, Union Committee, Union Board and includes the Mayor / Chief Executive Officer of a Municipal Corporation and President of a Union Board,
(h). “Chief Officer” has the same meaning as is assigned to it in the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act, 1947 Bihar Act 7 of 1948), and
(i). All words and expressions used in these rules and not defined herein shall have the same meanings as are respectively assigned to them in the Act,
3. Prescribed authority under the first proviso to section 3
(1). The Veterinary Officer of the area concerned shall be the prescribed authority under the first proviso to section 3.
(2). Application for permission under the first proviso to section 3 to slaughter a bull, bullock or she buffalo shall be made by the applicant to the Veterinary Officer stating the grounds in support of the application.
(3). The Veterinary Officer may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, allow or disallow the application but no application shall be disallowed unless the applicant has been given a reasonable opportunity of being heard and of adducing evidence, if any, in support of his application.
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(4). No appeal shall lie against the order of the Veterinary Officer disallowing the application.
(5). Where the Veterinary Officer allows the application, he shall grant to the applicant a certificate to that effect specifying the place of slaughter and he shall simultaneously send a copy of the certificate to the Officer-in-charge of the police-station and the Sub-divisional Magistrate within whose jurisdiction the said place is situated.
(6). A bull, bullock or she-buffalo in respect of which a certificate has been granted under subrule (5) shall not be slaughtered –
(a). at a public place or in public view or at any place other than the place mentioned in the certificate;
(b). without giving in writing at least a week’s notice to the Veterinary Officer of the date of slaughter which date must not be beyond twenty days of the date of the receipt of the certificate by the person in whose favour it is granted.
(7). The Veterinary Officer receiving the notice under clause (b) of sub rule (6) shall at once send a copy of the notice to the Officer-in-charge of the police-station and the Sub-divisional Magistrate within whose jurisdiction the place of slaughter mentioned in the certificate is situated for taking such precautionary measures as they may consider necessary.
(8). The slaughter of a bull, bullock or she-buffalo in respect of which a certificate has been granted under sub-rule (5) shall be done in an enclosure by adopting humane methods of slaughter, i.e, mechanical, electrical, chemical jhatka, halal or other mans by sharp cutting instrument which is found to be rapid, effective and humane.