Animal Identification Regulations (GN No. 307 of 2017).

These Regulations, made section 32 of the under Animal Health Act, implement provisions of the Act for the identification and registration of prescribed animals and related matters. Prescribed animals are animals listed in Annexure 1 or declared as a prescribed animal under section 23(a) of Act. The Regulations also concern the identification and registration of establishments used for the purpose of keeping animals. They set out requirements for places to be eligible for registration as registered establishments. An owner of a prescribed animal must ensure that his or her stock brand is linked to the registered establishment where the prescribed animal is kept. The Chief Veterinary Officer may impose restrictions on an owner of a registered establishment without prior notice to such owner for a period which the Chief Veterinary Officer may consider necessary under the following conditions - (a) when the establishment is under disease investigation; (b) when a notifiable disease is suspected on the registered establishment; (c) when there is a violation of an act of residue control; or (d) for any other condition that Chief Veterinary Officer may consider necessary to impose restrictions on the registered establishment. For the purposes of section 27 of Act, the obligation of an owner of a prescribed animal to identify the prescribed animal by means of an approved device must be complied with by the owner in relation to the prescribed animal kept on a registered establishment at any place on the date notified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.
The Regulations also provide with respect to licensing of places for animal gathering and movement of prescribed animals.