Improvement of Agricultural Production Law (Livestock), 1952

IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION LAW (LIVESTOCK), 19521 1. Definitions: In this Law – "Livestock" shall mean cattle, sheep, horse, donkey, poultry, bees and any other animal, which the Minister of Agriculture has declared, in an announcement published in the Official Gazette, to be Livestock for the purpose of this Law, including brood-eggs; "Improvement of Livestock" shall mean improving the yield of offspring of Livestock, improving products derived from Livestock and their carcasses, and increasing their work capacity, resistance to disease and fertility; "Inspector" shall mean a person whom the Minister of Agriculture has appointed inspector for the purpose of this Law. 2. Advisory Committees: (a) The Minister of Agriculture shall appoint, for the purpose of this Law, an Advisory Committee or Advisory Committees; members of the public and civil servants shall be included on every such committee. (b) An Advisory Committee may be general or specific for a certain class of Livestock. 3. Regulations: The Minister of Agriculture may, after consulting with an Advisory Committee appointed under Section 2, enact regulations in all matters pertaining to Improvement of Livestock, including regulations for: (1) prohibiting or restricting the raising of Livestock or of any of the different classes of Livestock for breeding purposes, or use thereof for natural reproduction, artificial insemination or other breeding methods; (2) prohibiting or restricting the slaughtering or destruction of Livestock which may be used for breeding, reproduction and artificial insemination; (3) regulating, restricting or prohibiting trade in semen of Livestock intended for artificial insemination, and in brood-eggs; (4) prohibiting unlicensed dealing in artificial insemination and specifying conditions for receipt or revocation of a license; 1 Codex 92, 5712, p. 128. (5) designating protected areas for performance of Livestock improvement experiments or for protection of the purity of their stock, and imposing in these areas restrictions on holding Livestock or stipulating conditions therefor; (6) specifying sanitary and other conditions for fulfilment in connection with the use of natural reproduction, artificial insemination or other methods of Livestock breeding; (7) imposing controls on the import and export of Livestock for breeding purposes; (8) setting fees for every application, approval or other certificate submitted or issued in accordance with the regulations enacted under this Law. 4. Inspector’s Powers: An Inspector may – (1) enter, at any time, any premises that are not a place of residence, for the purpose of monitoring compliance with the provisions of the regulations enacted under this Law; (2) seize any Livestock which, in the Inspector’s opinion, served in the violation of any regulation enacted under this Law, and seize any object which may serve as evidence of such violation; at the time of the seizure, the Inspector shall issue to the holder of the Livestock or to the holder of the object a receipt in respect of what he or she seized; (3) mark or geld Livestock whose breeding or use for impregnation, artificial insemination or other breeding methods has been prohibited or restricted in a regulation enacted under this Law; (4) do anything imposed on the Inspector to do in regulations enacted under this Law. 5. Offences: A person violating a regulation enacted under this Law shall be liable to one year’s imprisonment or a fine of up to three hundred lira, or both penalties together. 6. Implementation: The Minister of Agriculture is in charge of implementation of this Law. Levy Eshkol Minister of Agriculture Yosef Sprinzak Speaker of the Knesset Acting President of the State David Ben-Gurion Prime Minister