(1) The State Government may, by notification, declare any part of the 1 (State) to be a specified area for the purposes of this Act and thereupon the provisions of section 4 to 20 shall come into operation in such area.
(2) No such notification shall be issued unless the State Government is satisfied that the number of bulls in the specified area which are fit to be certified as approved under section 7 together with such number of bulls as may be supplied by State Government in any local area for breeding purpose will be adequate to maintain the rate of propagation of the species.
(3) The State Government may after recording reasons for doing so cancel at any time a notification issued under sub-section (1 ).
( 4) The validity of any notification issued under sub-section (1) or
(3) shall not be called into question in any proceeding before any court or authority.
Prohibition to keep a bull unmarked.
4. Except as provided by or under this Act, no person shall keep in his possession any bull which has not been marked in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
Intimation about unmarked bulls.
5. Every person, who on the date of issue of the notification under section 3 has in his possession any bull or who, at any time thereafter, comes into possession of any bull which is not branded with a distinguishing mark prescribed under this Act, shall give intimation of 3 such possession to the Live-stock Officer within such period as may be prescribed.
Submission of bulls for inspection.
6. On receipt of the intimation under section 5, or on his own motion the Live-stock Officer, may by order, require any person keeping a bull to submit the bull for inspection at any reasonable time and at a specified place in the village in which the bull is usually kept and thereupon it shall be the duty of the person keeping the bull to submit it for inspection accordingly and render all reasonable assistance in connection with such inspection.
Notification of bulls as approved.
7. Where on such inspection of a bull, the Live-stock Officer is satisfied in that the bull is capable of being used for breeding purposes, and -
(a) is not of defective or inferior conformation and is not likely to be get defective or inferior progeny; or
(b) is not suffering from an incurable, contagious or infections disease of from any other disease rendering the bull unsuitable for breeding purposes, or ( c) is not, of a breed which it is undesirable to propagate in the specified area or part thereof, he shall certify the bull as approved and cause it to be branded with a mark prescribed for the purpose.
1. Substituted by S.3(3) of the M.P. Extension of Laws Act, 1958 (23 1958) for the words "Mahakoshal region."
Marking of castrated bulls.
8. Where on inspection, the Live-stock Officer is satisfied that a bull is effectively castrated, he shall cause it to be branded with a mark prescribed for the purpose.
Castrating of unapproved bulls.