Veterinary Public Health Ordinance, 1999.

This Ordinance consists of 103 Sections divided into 11 Parts: Preliminary (I); Administration (II); Import and Export of Animals, Fish and Animal or Fish Products (III); Prevention of Animal and Fish Diseases (IV); Livestock Farming(V); Animal or Fish Feeds and Veterinary Drugs (VI); Abattoirs and Meat Processing Factories, Etc. (VII); Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (VIII); Licensing and Fees (IX);Powers of Entry, Investigation, Seizure and Arrest (X); Miscellaneous (XI).
Sections 3-4 provide for the appointment of State Veterinary Authority and the functions and duties thereof. The Majlis Mesyuarat Kerajaan Negeri may appoint any veterinary officer in the State Public Service to be the State Veterinary Authority for the purpose of performing and carrying out the duties assigned to that Authority under this Ordinance. No person shall import or export any animal, fish, animal or fish products without licence (Section 9, 17). Measures for the prevention of animal and fish diseases are stipulated in Part IV, including: examination for disease, destruction of diseased animal, fish, animal or fish products, compensation for any animal destroyed, disinfection or closure of premises, disposal of infected animal, fish, animal or fish products, owner of diseased or dead animal or fish to report, disposal of dead animal or fish, vaccination, infected area, disease control area and disease eradication area, etc. The State Veterinary Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, grant, subject to such conditions as he may consider necessary, permission to the owner of any animal or fish to remove it into or out of any infected area.
Sections 42-44 stipulate the licence required for livestock farming and conditions precedent for issuance of such licence. No licence shall be issued for a pig farm unless the layout plan of the farm including the boundaries thereof and the facilities for controlling pig waste discharge or disposal has been approved by the State Veterinary Authority. No person shall import, manufacture, process for sale or utilization or sell simple feeds, mineral mixtures, feed concentrates or compound feeds without a licence issued by the State Veterinary Authority (Section 48). No person shall dispense, administer on or provide for consumption by any animal or fish, any veterinary drug for the treatment of any animal or fish unless he is a veterinary surgeon or a person as prescribed in Section 57. No animal intended to be for sale or public consumption shall be slaughtered at any premises other than at a licensed abattoir or at a Government abattoir or at any other place approved by the State Veterinary Authority (Section 62).
The Ordinance further makes provision for: license for meat processing factory, quarantine stations for animal or fish, inspection, penalty for cruelty to animals and other offences and penalties.