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NATIONAL LEGISLATION OVERVIEWS
NATIONAL LEGISLATION OVERVIEWS
Animal Health Act, No. 7 of 2002
Long title
To provide for measures to promote animal health and to control animal diseases; to assign executive authority with regard to certain provisions of this Act to provinces; to regulate the importation and exportation of animals and things; to establish animal health schemes; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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Long title
To provide for measures to promote animal health and to control animal diseases; to assign executive authority with regard to certain provisions of this Act to provinces; to regulate the importation and exportation of animals and things; to establish animal health schemes; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Table of contents
| SECTION | TITLE |
| 1. | Definitions |
| 2. | Designation of, and powers and functions of, national executive officer |
| 3. | Delegation of powers and assignment of duties by national executive officer |
| 4. | Designation of assignees |
| 5. | Assignment of certain functions to provincial executives |
| 6. | Suspension of assignment |
| 7. | Limitations on investigations, experiments and research with, and manufacture and evaluation of, certain products |
| 8. | Restriction on exportation |
| 9. | Restriction on animals or things imported and in transit |
| 10. | Detention and disposal of imported animal or thing, and animal or thing conveyed in transit |
| 11. | Quarantine stations and quarantine camps |
| 12. | Fencing |
| 13. | Disposal of straying animals |
| 14. | Directives |
| 15. | Assumption of control over land, animal or thing |
| 16. | Animal health schemes |
| 17. | Duties of owners and users regarding health of animals |
| 18. | Services rendered by national executive officer |
| 19. | Powers to enter, search and to carry out inspections and controlled veterinary procedures |
| 20. | Disposal of isolated, detained or seized animal or thing |
| 21. | Compensation |
| 22. | Appeals |
| 23. | Determination and payment of fees and other amounts |
| 24. | Keeping and producing of documents |
| 25. | Confidentiality |
| 26. | Application of Act in respect of the State |
| 27. | Defects in form |
| 28. | Regulations |
| 29. | Offences and penalties |
| 30. | Presumptions and evidence |
| 31. | Repeal of laws and transitional provisions |
| 32. | Short title |
| Sch. | SCHEDULE (SECTION 31) |
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