Countrywide ban on Sale, purchase of cattle from any animal markets for slaughter.

Central Rule: ‘Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules, 2017’ under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.

Sale, purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter banned countrywide.

PTI | New Delhi | May 26, 2017::  The Union government has banned the sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter, with the Environment Ministry notifying the stringent ’Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules, 2017’ under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.

According to the notification, the member-secretary of an animal market committee will have to ensure that no person brings a young animal to the animal market.

“No person shall bring a cattle to an animal market unless upon arrival he has furnished a written declaration signed by the owner of the cattle — stating the name and address of the owner of the cattle, with a copy of the photo identification proof.

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“Giving details of the identification of the cattle and stating that the cattle has not been brought to market for sale for slaughter,” the notification said.

A senior Environment Ministry official told PTI that the notification is in the direction of animal welfare.

The notification has described the “animal market” as a market place or sale yard to which animals are brought from other places and exposed for sale or auction and includes any lairage adjoining a market or a slaughterhouse.

Highlights
*No Cattle market must be a place of Animal Cruelty.
*Market owner must ensure that sale and purchase of cattle only for agriculture, not for slaughter.
*Sale and Purchase only through valid certification and checking.
*No cattle market within 25 Kms of border area .
*Market owners and State will be responsible any violation.

N.G. Jayasimha, former member of the legal sub-committee of Animal Welfare Board of India, said that due to the present system of open markets that allowed trade of both milch and slaughter animals, and multiple buyers and sellers, it becomes impossible to trace an animal back to its farm of origin.

“Hence, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules, 2017 have been notified. The rules prohibit the sale of animals for slaughter through the livestock markets so that animals for slaughter could be sought directly from farms, thus ensuring traceability and food safety,” he said.

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Courtesy:  PTI/ Top Pic. Suzanne.

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