ZWE - SA - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
ANIMAL PRODUCTION
Zimbabwe / Animal production
ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION AND TRACEABILITY
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
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Section 14 Where appropriate and feasible, the director or the director of customs may cause any wildlife or trophy which is being imported into or exported from Zimbabwe to be marked with an indelible imprint or lead seal or in some other manner so as to render its imitation by unauthorse persons as difficult as possible.
Section 4 - Subject to section 9; every owner or keeper of cattle kept on holding on or before they attained the age of six months of age, shall identify them with a brand specified in the second column of the Schedule which is appropriate to the prescribed area or zone where the holding is situated on which the owner or keeper has his cattle.
Section 5- (I) Cattle shall be identified to their farm or dip-tank of origin by either-
(a) brand approved and registered by the Director of Veterinary Services and applied within 180 days of the cattle having been born; or
(b) ear tags approved and prescribed by the Director of Veterinary Services and which shall be applied to the left ear of the cattle within 20 days of the cattle having been born; or (c) both (a) and (b).
Schedule Section 5 (6). To order and prescribe measures to be taken in connection with—
(a) the mustering, checking. counting, securing, branding, marking,
muzzling, clipping, shearing, testing, cleansing, examination, inspection, inoculation,
immunization, isolation, destruction, seizure, disposal, confinement, control,
disinfection and treatment of animals which are kept on or are brought on to or are
removed from or which stray on to or from land in a prescribed area, quarantine area, quarantine station or other place referred to in paragraph 3 or which are suffering or are suspected to be suffering from a disease or which are infested or are suspected to be infested with a pest; and
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Section 2- “animal” means—
(a) any kind of domestic vertebrate animal;
(b) any kind of wild vertebrate animal in captivity;
(c) the young of any animal referred to in paragraph (a) or (b); “owner”, in addition to its ordinary meaning, includes any person having the charge,
custody or control of any animal;
“wild animal” includes wild bird and reptile.
Section 2 "keeper" means the person/s responsible for looking after the cattle; "owner" means the person/s to whom the cattle belong; "holding" means a place or area or farm where cattle are normally kept;
Section 2- "animal", subject to the provisions of section 3, means an
animal specified in the First Schedule;
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ANIMALS FOR THE IMPORT OF WHICH A PERMIT ISSUED UNDER SECTION 4 IS REQUIRED
1. Bovine animal
2. Horse; donkey; mule
3. Sheep; goat
4. Pig
S. Cat; dog
6. Rabbit
l. Domestic fowl; turkey: duck; guinea fowl
8. All wild animals which are mammals and which are domesticated or in captivity. 9. All wild birds which are domesticated or in captivity
10 All reptiles
I I. All rodents
12. All fish and crustacea
Section 2- "animal" - a member of a class or a class of vertebrate animal, domestic or otherwise;
Section 4- “owner”—in relation to an animal or infectious or other thing or vehicle, includes the person having for the time being the management, custody or control of the animal or infectious or other thing or vehicle or, if that person is a child, the person having for the time being the care, custody or control of the child
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Section 30 (2) No person, other than an authorized person, shall, without the Minister’s consent, be given access to a record kept in terms of and for the purposes of this Act, and no such record shall be used without the Minister’s consent in connection with civil proceedings.