Regulations to amend Regulations made under section 18 of the Animal Identification Act (No. R. 60 of 2007)

98 No. 29559 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2 FEBRUARY 2007 No. R. 60 2 February 2007 ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION ACT, 2002 (ACT No. 6 OF 2002) REGULATIONS: AMENDMENT I, Lulama Xingwana, Minister of Agriculture, acting under section 18 of the Animal Identification Act, 2002 (Act No. 6 of hereby amend the regulations set out in the Schedule. L. Xingwana, Minister of Agriculture. 2002), STAATSKOERANT, 2 FEBRUARIE 2007 No. 29559 99 SCHEDULE Definitions 1. In this Schedule “the Regulations” means the Regulations published by Government Notice No. R. 1683 of 21 November 2003, R. 1684 of 21 November 2003, as corrected by Government Notice No. R. 114 of 6 February 2004 and amended by Government Notice No. 934 of 30 September 2005, R. 209 of 10 March 2006 and R. 877 of 8 September 2006. Amendment of Regulation 9 of the Regulations 2. bregulations: Regulation 9 of the regulations is hereby amended by the addition of the following “(4) In the case of pigs, the size of a character at the time of the application of an identification mark by means of tattooing, must not exceed 20 mm in width at the widest and 20 mm in height at the highest part.”. Amendment of Regulation of the Regulations 3. subregulation: Regulation of the regulations is hereby amended by the addition of the following “(4) An identification mark in the case of pigs must consist of one to three characters and the characters must be tattooed from left to right, next to and 6 mm from each other.”. Amendment of Regulation 1 of the Regulations 4. by the following paragraph: Regulation of the regulations is hereby amended by the substitution of paragraph (c) “(c) pigs must be tattooed at the age of one month.”. R SU 10 10 1 11