WEST PAKISTAN ANIMALS SLAUGHTER CONTROL

ACT, 1963. "

(ACT III OF 1963)
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE SLAUGHTER OF USEFUL
ANIMALS AND TO REGULATE THE SLAUGHTER OF OTHER
ANIMALS IN WEST PAKISTAN.
• Whereas it is expedient to prohibit the slaughter of useful animals
and to regulate the slaughter of other animals in the Province of
West Pakistan;
• 1. Short title, extent and commencement :­
• (1) This Act may be called the West Pakistan Animals Slaughter
Control Act, 1963.
• (2) It extends to the Urban Areas in the Province of West Pakistan,
except the Tribal Areas.
• (3) This section shall come into force at once and the remaining
provisions of the Act or any of them shall come into force in such
urban area and on such date as Government may, by notification in
the official Gazette, specify in this behalf.
• 2. Definitions:
• In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the
following expressions shall have the meanings hereby
respectively assigned to them, that is to say :­
• (a) "animal" means a bullock, bull, cow, buffalo,
• buffalo-bull and sheep of any age;
• (b) "carcass" means the dead body of an animal;
• (c) "cull" means to pick an animal which is suitable
• neither for breeding purposes nor for draught
• purposes;
• (d) "Government" means the Government of West
• Pakistan;
• (e) "local authority" means a local council established under the
Basic Democracies Order, 1959 (P. O. No. 18 of 1959) or a
Municipal Committee constituted under any municipal law for the
time being in force
• or a Cantonment Board established under the Cantonments Act,
1924 (II of 1924);
• (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under
• this Act;
• (g) "slaughter" means to kill animals by any means;
• (h) "slaughter-house" means any building or premises used for
slaughtering animals and approved by the local authority concerned;
• (i) "stock yard" means any enclosure, approved by a local authority
where animals are assembled for examination by the Veterinary
Officer to determine whether they are suitable for slaughter or not,
or where animals approved for slaughtering are housed until they
are removed to the slaughter house;
• (j) "urban area" means an area within the jurisdiction of a Municipal body or
a Cantonment Board and includes any other area which the Government
may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare to be an urban area for
the purposes of this Act;
• (k) "useful animal" means :­
• (i) a female sheep below the age of one year and six months;
• (ii) a female sheep of the age exceeding one year and six months
but not exceeding four years, which is pregnant or fit for breeding purposes;
• (iii) any female animal, other than sheep, below three years of age;
• (iv) any female animal, other than sheep, which isp regnant or in milk
or fit for breeding purpose;
• (v) any female animal, other than sheep, between three to ten years of
age, which is fit for draught purposes; but does not include any such animal
which on account of culling, injury, illness or other cause,
• is certified in writing by a Veterinary Officer or any Gazetted Officer of the
Animal Husbandry Department as not likely to live or as no longer a useful
animal for the purposes of this Act;
• (I) "Veterinary Officer" means an officer of
the Animal Husbandry Department, not
below the rank of a Veterinary Assistant
Surgeon, and includes an officer­in-charge
of a slaughter-house, provided that such
officer-in-charge possesses a degree or
diploma from a recognized Veterinary or
Animal Husbandry College.
• 3. Restriction on slaughter of animals :­
• (1) No person shall slaughter a useful animal.
• (2) No person shall slaughter an animal: ­
• (a) unless such animal has been approved as hereinafter provided,
for slaughter; and
• (b) except in a slaughterhouse and during the hours prescribed
therefore:
• Provided that nothing contained in this section shall apply to the
slaughter of any animal :­
• (i) by a Muslim on the day of Eid-ul-Azha and thet wo succeeding
days; or
• (ii) which on account of illness, injury or other cause is likely to die
before it can be presented to the officer-in-charge of slaughter-
house.
• 4. Examination in stock yard :­
• (1) Any person intending to slaughter an animal in a slaughter-
house shall produce the animal in the stock yard for examination at
any time during the hours fixed by the local authority concerned for
inspection.
• (2) After examination of any such animal the Veterinary Officer may
approve it for slaughter: Provided that no useful animal shall be so
approved.
• (3) Any person aggrieved by a decision of the Veterinary Officer
may, within twenty-four hours of such decision, prefer an appeal
from such decision, to such authority as may be prescribed.
• (4) Subject to the decision of the appellate authority the decision of
the Veterinary Officer shall be final.
• 5. Prohibition to cause abortion:
• No person shall voluntarily cause a pregnant sheep to
miscarry or induce premature birth of its young.
• 6. Power to exempt :­
• Government may, under special circumstances
subject to such conditions as it may deem fit to impose,
exempt any person or class of persons from all or any
provision of this Act.
• 7. Power of entry, search and seizure :­
• A Veterinary Officer or any Gazetted Officer may enter
and
• search a slaughter-house or any other premises where he
has reason to believe that an offence under this Act has
been, is being or is about to be committed and may seize
any animal, carcass or meat in respect of which such offence
has been, is being or is about to be committed, as the case
may be.
• 8. Penalty:­
• (1) Whoever contravenes any provision of this Act or such of the rules
made there under as may be prescribed shall on first conviction, be
punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees or with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month or with both and
on second or subsequent conviction, with imprisonment which may
extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred
rupees or with both.
• (2) An attempt to contravene any provisions of this Act or the rules as
aforesaid and an abetment of such contravention shall be punished as an
offence under this Act.
• (3) Any person who is in possession of the premises where an offence
under this Act has been or is being committed may be presumed to have
abetted that offence.
• 9. Forfeiture :­
• The Court trying an offence under this Act may direct that any animal,
carcass or meat in respect of which the Court is satisfied that an offence
under this Act has been committed,
be forfeited to Government.
• 10. Reward to informers :­
• The Court trying an offence under this Act may direct that an
amount not exceeding twenty percent of such sum as may be
realized by way of fine or under section 517 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898), on account of the sale or disposal
otherwise of the animal, carcass or meat in respect of which an
offence under this Act has been committed, be awarded to the
person or persons supplying information relat­ing to the commission
of the offence.
• 11. Rules :­
• Government may frame rules :­
• (i) to regulate the procedure for the disposal of animal, carcass or
meat seized under this Act; and
• (ii) generally to give effect to the provisions of this Act.
• 12. Repeal of act LXVI of 1950 :­
• The Karachi Cattle Slaughter Control Act, 1950 is hereby
repealed.