Animal Diseases Act, 1984 (Act No. 35 of 1984)Regulations20. Restrictions on movement |
(1)
| (a) | Subject to the provisions of subregulations (2) and (3) no person shall, except under the authority of a permit issued by the responsible State Veterinarian and otherwise than in accordance with the conditions specified in such permit— |
| (i) | remove cattle, equines, sheep, goats or pigs from any abattoir which the director designated as an abattoir at which infected animals shall be slaughtered; |
| (ii) | move or remove any controlled animals or things to, from or through the harbours of Durban, Cape Town, Mossel Bay, East London, Port Elizabeth, Richards Bay, Saldanha Bay or Walvis Bay, or the airports of Durban (Louis Botha), Johannesburg (Jan Smuts) or Cape Town (D.F. Malan); |
| (iii) | move or remove any animal that is not visibly free from external parasites, from the land on which it is kept, is grazing or on which it normally occurs, except where such animal is moved to the place where it is normally dipped, sprayed or treated; |
| (iv) | move or remove any live game, excluding buffalo's, wart-hogs, bush pigs and wild pigs, from the land in any controlled area, the remainder of the provinces of the Transvaal and Natal and the Magisterial Districts of Gordonia, Kuruman, Mafeking and Vryburg in the Province the Cape of Good Hope on which it occurs or is kept, to any other land; |
| (v) | move or remove live buffalo, warthogs, bush pigs, wild pigs and ostriches from the land on which they are kept to any other land; |
[Regulation 20(1)(a)(v) substituted by section 2(a) of Notice No. R. 864, GG29155, dated 1 September 2006]
| (vi) | move or remove a controlled animal or thing to or from an area specified in Annexure 2; |
| (vii) | move or remove any controlled animal or thing to, across or from land in a controlled area; or |
| (viii) | move cattle to land of which the owner and the cattle that are kept thereon enrolled under the accredited herd programs of the Bovine Brucellosis or Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Scheme. |
| (ix) | move or remove any warthog, bush pig or wild pig carcass, meat, skin, trophy or other product of warthog, bush pig or wild pig origin to, across or from land in the Provinces of Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West or KwaZulu-Natal. |
[Regulation 20(1)(a)(ix) substituted by section 3(a) of Notice No. R. 558, GG32234, dated 22 May 2009]
| (b) | Each responsible person shall take the necessary precautionary measures to prevent his animals, excluding game that is not tamed, from straying to or from a place or area referred in paragraph (a)(i), (ii), (v), (vi) or (vii). |
| (2) | An animal excluding a contact animal or an infected animal that has in terms of regulation 11(3)(a) to undergo a controlled veterinary act regularly may without a permit be moved to the place within a controlled area where such act is applied: Provided that such animal shall immediately after such act has been completed be returned to the land from which it has been moved. |
| (3) | A permit referred to in subregulation (1) for the movement or removal of buffalo shall be issued only if the land to which those buffalo are to be moved or removed are registered as contemplated in regulation 20A. Such a permit shall be restricted by the provision made in Regulation 20(6). |
[Regulation 20(3) substituted by section 3(b) of Notice No. R. 558, GG32234, dated 22 May 2009]
| (4) | The director may by notice in a newspaper in the manner contemplated in regulation 2(1)(a) or by means of a circular, and if he is satisfied by the circumstances in a controlled area that the achievement of a controlled purpose will not be defeated thereby, exempt the responsible persons in a particular controlled area or a portion of such area from the provisions of subregulations (1) and (3). |
[Regulation 20(4) inserted by section 4(c) of Notice No. R. 2358, GG15312, dated 10 December 1993]
| (5) | The director may by notice in a newspaper in the manner contemplated in regulation 2(1)(a) or by means of a circular, and if he is satisfied by the circumstances in a controlled area that the achievement of a controlled purpose will not be defeated thereby, exempt the responsible persons in a particular controlled area or a portion of such area from the provisions of subregulations (1) and (3) and (4). |
[Regulation 20(5) inserted by section 2(c) of Notice No. R. 864, GG29155, dated 1 September 2006]
| (6) | No permit shall be issued for the movement or removal of live buffalo out of the controlled areas for Corridor or buffalo disease or the infected zones and protection zones of the controlled areas for Foot and mouth disease as described in Table 1. Any exemption for this provision in terms of Regulation 11(2)(a) and (b) may be granted only subject to written approval of the director referred to in section 2(1) of the Act". |
[Regulation 20(6) substituted by section 3(a) of Notice No. R. 865, GG38159, dated 7 November 2014]
| (7) | No live cloven hoofed animals may be moved from the Foot and mouth disease infected zones to the protection zones and free zone as described in Table 1. |
[Regulation 20(7) inserted by section 3(b) of Notice No. R. 865, GG38159, dated 7 November 2014]
| (8) | No buffalo may be moved onto the same land where cattle are being kept, and no cattle may be moved onto the same land where buffalo are being kept. |
[Regulation 20(8) substituted by section 3(c) of Notice No. R. 865, GG38159, dated 7 November 2014]