Animal Improvement Act, 1998 (Act No. 62 of 1998)Regulations16. Techical activities at centres |
| (1) | The technical activities at a centre shall— |
| (a) | in so far as they apply to the state of health of the animals kept therein, be under the control of a veterinarian: Provided that if a veterinarian is not in the full time employment of the centre, the centre shall be visited on a regular basis by a veterinarian for the said purpose; and |
| (b) | in so far as they apply to the collection, evaluation, processing, packing, labelling and storage genetic material, be under the control of a veterinarian, a registered semen collector or a registered embryo collector, as the case may be. |
| (2) | The equipment at a centre for the collection on genetic material shall be cleaned, sterilised and prepared prior to their use and the apparatus to be used for the evaluation, processing, labelling and packing thereof, shall be clean and sterile. |
| (3) | Equipment and apparatus shall be used in such a manner that genetic material of different animals shall not become mixed, and that such genetic material shall not be contaminated or damaged. |
| (4) | The diluent for semen and the medium in which an embryo is prepared or preserved for transfer, shall not contain any micro-organisms or substance injurious or detrimental to such semen, embryo or animal that is inseminated or to which an embryo is transferred. |
| (5) | Each dose of semen, excluding semen packed in pelleted form, and each embryo or ova or batch of embryos or ova shall be packed in separate container that shall be sealed in such a manner that the semen, embryo or ovum shall not spill or become contaminated. |
| (6) | When semen is packed in pelleted form, the semen of each animal from which it is collected shall be packed separately in the manner explained in subregulation (5 ). |
| (7) | Each container in which a dose of genetic material is packed shall be marked or labelled either in codified form or otherwise, with the following particulars: |
| (a) | The name or code number of the centre where such genetic material has been collected. |
| (b) | The identification of the animal from which it has been collected. |
| (c) | The date on which such genetic material has been collected, or the batch number of the genetic material from which such dose genetic material has been obtained. |
| (d) | In the case of an embryo, the identification of both the donor of the semen and the ovum used in the fertilisation and nidation thereof. |
| (8) | The particulars referred to in subregulation (7), shall be marked or labelled in a manner that is clear and legible and that shall not be effaced during storage, conveyance or handling. |
| (9) | Each dose of semen from an animal of a kind specified in column 1 of Table 5 in the Annexure shall contain at least the number of unfrozen spermatozoa specified in column 2 of the said table. |