BOMBAY ANIMAL PRESERVATION ACT, 1954
GUJARAT ACT NO. 4 OF 1994.
(First published, after having received the assent of the President in the “Gujarat Government Gazette" on the 15th March, 1994).
An Act further to amend the Bombay Animal Preservation Act, 1954.
WHEREAS it is established that cow and her progeny sustain the health of the nation by giving them the life giving milk which is so essential an item in a scientifically balanced diet ;
AND WHEREAS the working bullocks arc indispensable for our agriculture for they supply power more than any other animal ;
AND WHEREAS the working bullocks are often useful in ploughing the fields, drawal of water from the wells and also very useful for drawing carts for transporting grains and fodders from the fields to the residences of farmers as well as to the Agricultural Market Yards ;
AND WHEREAS the dung of the animal is cheaper than the artificial manures and extremely useful for production of bio-gas ;
AND WHEREAS it is established that the back-bone of Indian agriculture i.sjn a manner of speaking, the cow and her progeny and have, on their back, the whole structure of the Indian agriculture and its economic system ;
AND WHEREAS it is expedient to give effect to the policy of the State towards scouring tin; principles laid down in articles 47, 48 and in clauses (b) and (c) of articles 39 of the Constitution of India and to protect, preserve and sustain cow and its progeny ;
It is hereby enacted in the Forty-fifth Years of the Republic of India as follows
Short title and commencement.
1. (1) This Act may be called the Bombay Animal Preservation (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 1994,
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 23rd September, 1993.
Amendment of section 5 of Bom, LXXII of 1954.
Bom. LXXII of 1954.
2. In the Bombay Animal Preservation Act, 1954 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), in section 5,—
(1) in sub-section QA), for clauses (c) and (d), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely:
“(c) a bull;
(d) a bullock.” ;
(2) in sub-section (3) ,—
(i) in clause (a), sub-clauses (ii) and (iii) shall be deleted ;
(ii) in clause (b), after the words “calf of a cow", the words “bull or bullock” shall be inserted.
Repeal and savings.
Guj. Ord 4 of 1993.
3. (1) The Bombay Animal Preservation (Gujarat Amendment) Ordinance, 1993 is hereby repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the principal Act as amended by the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal Act as amended by this Act. |
