Importation and Exportation of Livestock and Livestock Products Proclamation (Amendment) Act 1984 (No.21 of 1984)

Supplement No.2 to Gazette No. 29 of 3 rd August, 1984 Importation and Exportation of Livestock and Livestock Products Proclamation (Amendment) Act 1984 Act No.21 of 1984 Published by the Authority of the Prime Minister Importation And Exportation of Livestock And Livestock products Proclamation (Amendment) Act 1984 ACT NO.21 OF 1984 [Date of Assent : 19.6.84] ACT To amend the Importation and Exportation of Livestock and Livestock Products Proclamation 1952. Enacted by the Assembly. Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Importation and Exportation of Livestock and Livestock Products (Amendment) Act 1984. Amendment of 2. Section 1 of the Principal Law is amended by: Section 1 of (a) deleting the interpretation of “livestock products” and substituting the following: Proclamation “livestock products” mean 57 of 1952. (i) meat or meat products (except heat-processed meat and meat products in hermitically sealed containers ); (ii) milk and milk products; (iii) eggs; (iv) unprocessed hides, skins, bones, horns, hooves, feathers or hair of livestock including wool and mohair. (v) Honey or bees wax.” (b) Inserting after the interpretation of “livestock products” the following; ‘Notifiable disease’ means any disease referred in this Act or in regulations made under it, for which notification is required under the Act; (c) “Undesirable livestock” means: (i) Any livestock considered by an inspecting officer to be lacking in constitution, size, confirmation, soundness and type for the improvement of livestock in Lesotho and include bastard sheep and boer goats: and (ii) Any livestock which originates from a country or part of a country from which imports are restricted. (d) inserting after the interpretation of “undesirable livestock” the following: “undesirable livestock products” means (i) Livestock products which are harmful to human or animal health; (ii) Livestock products originating from a country or part of a country from which imports are restricted. Amendment of 3. Section 2 of the Principal Law is amended by: Section 2 of (a) repealing and replacing subsection (3) by the following: Proclamation “(3) No permit shall be granted for undesirable livestock products”; 57 of 1952 (b) by deleting the colon appearing in sub-section (4) and substituting a full-stop; (c) repealing the proviso appearing in sub-section (4). Amendment of 4. The Principal Law is amended by the insertion after section 5 of the following: Proclamation 57 of 1952 “Prohibition 5A. The principal Veterinary officer may by notice in gazette, direct Of exports that no permit shall be granted under section 2 for the exportation of any livestock and livestock products any species of livestock or kind of livestock products, from any part of Lesotho, if any outbreak of a notifiable disease occurs for which an export prohibition is required”