Animal Improvement Act, 1998 (Act No. 62 of 1998)

22. Complaints against animal breeders' societies and registering authorities
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(1) If a complaint is lodged with the Minister that an animal breeders’ society or a registering authority has not properly attained or is unlikely properly to attain the objectives for which a registration certificate has been issued, he or she may refer such complaint for inquiry to a committee consisting of three members, who in the opinion of the Minister, have expert knowledge of the subject of the complaint and who are appointed by the Minister, one of whom he or she shall designate as the chairperson of such committee.

 

(2) The Minister shall at least one month prior to the commencement of such inquiry notify such animal breeders’ society or registering authority in writing of the act or omission which is to be the subject of the inquiry and of the date on which the inquiry shall commence, and such animal breeders’ society or registering authority shall be entitled to be represented at such inquiry by legal representation.

 

(3) The provisions of section 23(4), (5), (6), (7) and (8) shall mutatis mutandis apply with reference to an inquiry referred to in subsection (1).

 

(4) If the committee referred to in subsection (1) finds that the animal breeders’ society or registering authority concerned has not properly attained or is unlikely properly to attain the objectives specified in subsection (1), the Minister may cancel the registration of the animal breeders’ society or registering authority or suspend it for the period determined by him or her, whereupon the powers of the animal breeders’ society or registering authority shall for the period of suspension or, in the case of the cancellation of the registration, respectively vest temporarily in the registering authority concerned or permanently in another registering authority determined by the Minister, as the case may be.

 

(5) When an animal breeders’ society or a registering authority voluntarily decides to dissolve in accordance with its constitution or when the registration of an animal breeders’ society or registering authority is cancelled in terms of subsection (4), such animal breeders’ society or registering authority shall be dissolved, and as from the date of such cancellation all the remaining assets, liabilities, rights and obligations of such animal breeders’ society or registering authority shall devolve as may be determined in the constitution of the said animal breeders’ society or the registering authority concerned.

 

(6)
(a) The registrar shall give notice in the Gazette of the cancellation in terms of subsection (4) of the registration of an animal breeders’ society or registering authority.
(b) The registrar shall delete the name of such animal breeders’ society or registering authority from the register.
(c) The registrar shall notify the Registrar of Companies of such cancellation whereupon the Registrar of Companies shall delete the name of such animal breeders’ society or registering authority from the Register of Companies.

 

(7) Any member of the committee referred to in subsection (1) who is not in the full-time employment of the State, may be paid such allowances as the Minister may with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance determine.