Animal Improvement Act, 1998 (Act No. 62 of 1998)13. Restriction of certain actions in respect of animals and genetic material |
| (1) | No person shall— |
| (a) | collect, evaluate, process, pack or store embryos or ova unless— |
| (i) | he or she is registered as an embryo collector in terms of section 8; or |
| (ii) | he or she is the owner of an animal from which the embryos or ova are collected, evaluated, processed, packed or stored; |
| (b) | import genetic material on behalf of another person unless he or she is registered as an import agent in terms of section 8. |
| (2) | If a person who is registered as a semen collector, inseminator, embryo collector or embryo transferor in terms of section 8, artificially inseminates an animal or transfers ova or embryos into a recipient female animal, he or she shall provide the owner of such animal with a certificate containing the prescribed particulars. |