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Uganda
Animal Breeding Act, 2001
Act 11 of 2001
- Published in Uganda Gazette 36 on 15 June 2001
- Assented to on 25 May 2001
- Commenced on 13 December 2002 by Animal Breeding Act (Commencement) Instrument, 2002
- [This is the version of this document from 15 June 2001.]
- [Note: This legislation was revised and consolidated as at 31 December 2000 and 31 December 2023 by the Law Reform Commission of Uganda. All subsequent amendments have been researched and applied by Laws.Africa for ULII.]
Part I – Preliminary
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Animal Breeding Act, 2001.2. Commencement
This Act shall come into force on such day as the Minister shall by statutory instrument appoint; and the Minister may appoint different dates for different provisions of this Act.3. Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—"Accounting Officer" means the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry responsible for animal Industry;"animals" means all livestock, camels, donkeys, rabbits, poultry other ruminating and pseudo-ruminating animals, fish and any other animal that the Minister may by statutory instrument so declare;"Animal Breeder" means a person or group of persons engaged in breeding activities and registered with the Ministry;"Animal or Fish Breeding Specialist" means a person or class of persons academically qualified and recognised as an animal geneticist by the Ministry;"Animal Production Officer" means any person or class of persons certified and declared to be an animal production officer by the Ministry;"approved laboratory" or "testing station" means a laboratory in Uganda or any other country designated by the Board to carry out the tests provided for under this Act;"Aquaculturist" means an officer who has undergone training in aquaculture and is recognised by the Ministry;"Board" means the Board of Directors of the Centre;"cattle" means bulls, cows, oxen, heifer and calves;"centre" means the National Animal Genetic Resources Centre and Data Bank established under section 13;"collection" means a quantity of semen and ova taken from a donor at any time;"consignment" means a quantity of semen or sperm covered by a single certificate;"country of collection" means a country in which semen or ova is collected including Uganda;"currency point" has the meaning assigned to it in the First Schedule to this Act;"Director" means the Director of Animal Resources in the Ministry responsible for agriculture, animal industry and fisheries (MAAIF);"disease" means cattle plague (rinderpest), anthrax, pleuropneumonia, trypanosomiasis, tuberculosis, foot and mouth disease, mad cow disease, rabies, sheep pox, sheep scab, goat scab, goat pox, swine erysipelas, glands farcy, mange (scabies) in swine, mules and donkeys, ulcerative lymphangitis, epizootic lymphangitis, black quarter, and in fish, worms, argulus species and parasites and any other disease that may be declared by the Minister by statutory instrument to be included in the term “disease" for the purposes of this Act;"Executive Director" means the Executive Director referred to in section 22 of this Act;"farmer" means any person, household or group of persons keeping or rearing animals;"fingering" means fish seed ready to grow out systems;"fish seed" means sperm, eggs, fry and fingerings;"fry" means fish seed which has exhausted its yolk food;"Minister" means the Minister responsible for animal industry and fisheries;"Ministry" means the government Ministry responsible for animal industry and fisheries;"NARO" means the National Agricultural Research Organisation established by the National Agricultural Research Organisation Statute, 1992 (Statute No. 9 of 1992);"Official Veterinarian" means a veterinary officer duly registered with the Veterinary Board and employed in government service;"policy" means the National Animal Breeding Policy approved and adopted by government for implementation of the animal genetic improvement programme in Uganda;"programme" means the Action Plan for the implementation of the National Animal Breeding Policy in Uganda formulated by the government as amended from time to time with the approval of government;"poultry" means all domestic or domesticated fowls, ducks, geese, turkey, guinea fowl, pea-fowl, pheasants, pigeons, ornamental or caged birds, ostriches;"semen" means the prepared or diluted ejaculate of a farm animal;"semen collection centre" means an officially approved and supervised establishment situated in Uganda or any other country in which semen is produced for use in Artificial Insemination;"stock" means cattle, sheep, goats, horses mules, donkeys, swine, rabbits, guinea pigs, camels and poultry;“strip" means artificially removed eggs and sperms from mature fish;"Veterinary Officer" means any person or class of persons registered as a veterinary surgeon by the Veterinary Board.Part II – The Director of Animal Resources
4. Functions of the Director
The Director shall have functions in animal genetics—5. Additional functions of the Director
In carrying out of the functions under section 4 of the Act the Director shall carry out the following additional functions—6. Registration
Part III – Regulatory and institutional framework
7. Permits for imports and exports of animal and fisheries breeds
No imports or exports of animal breeds and genetic material shall be done without first obtaining a permit from the Commissioner, Livestock Health and Entomology.8. List of suitable breeds to be drawn and updated regularly
9. Genetic materials
10. Quality of semen and sperms
For the avoidance of doubt, the prescribed minimum amount of spermatozoa in a dose of semen shall be the one specified in the Sixth Schedule of this Act.11. Registration and regulation of breeders and their breeding stock
12. Special activities of certain Commissioners in the Ministry
Part IV – The National Animal Genetic Resources Centre and Data Bank
13. Establishment of the Centre and Data Bank
14. Objects of the Centre
The objects of the Centre are to—15. Functions of the Centre
16. Patent rights
The patent rights in any discoveries, inventions and improvements, apparatus and machines effected by persons engaged by the Centre in the discharge of their functions, shall vest in the Centre but the Centre may make any such patents available for use in the public interest on such terms as the Board may determine.Part V – The Board
17. The Board
18. Tenure of office
19. Functions of the Board
The functions of the Board shall be—20. Remuneration of members of the Board
The Centre shall pay to members and also to persons co-opted to any meeting of the Board, such sitting, subsistence, travelling and other allowances as the Minister may on the recommendation of the Board determine.21. Meetings of the Board
The Second Schedule to this Act shall apply to meetings of the Board.Part VI – Management and staff of the Centre
22. The Executive Director
23. Functions of the Director
24. Other employees of the Centre
The Board shall appoint other employees to facilitate the proper running of the Centre under terms and conditions of service determined by the Board.25. Experts and consultants
The Centre may, on such terms as the Board may determine, engage the services of experts and consultants in respect of any part of the functions of the Centre in which they are considered to have special competence.Part VII – Financial provisions
26. Financial year of the Centre
The financial year of the Centre shall be the twelve months beginning on the 1st day of July and ending on the 30th day of June in the following year.27. Funds of the Centre
Other financial affairs of the Centre
28. Financial status of the Centre
The Centre shall be financially autonomous and self accounting and shall perform its functions in a commercial manner and in accordance with existing financial regulations and accounting principles in the public service.29. Estimates of the Centre
30. Borrowing powers
31. Investment of surplus funds of the Centre
Any funds of the Centre not immediately required for any purpose under this Act shall be invested in such manner as the Board may determine.32. Accounts of the Centre
33. Audit of the Centre
Part VIII – Offences and penalties
34. Sales of substandard genetic material
35. Sales of genetic material under different name
36. Tampering with samples
Any person who—37. Altering official record
Any person who, without authority alters or defaces or removes—38. Altering documents and marks
Any person who without lawful authority—39. Additional penalties
40. Offences by bodies of persons
Part IX – Miscellaneous
41. Common seal of Centre
42. Validity of proceedings not affected by defects
The validity of any proceedings of the Board shall not be affected by any vacancy among its members or by any defect in the appointment of any of them or by the fact that any person sat or voted at any meeting who was not entitled to do so.43. Protection of Board members and employees
A member of the Board or an employee of the Centre shall not in his or her personal capacity be liable to any civil or criminal proceeding in respect of any act done or omission made in good faith in the performance of his or her duties under this Act.44. Annual reports of Centre
45. Minister’s report to Parliament
The Minister shall, as soon as possible after receiving the annual report and the audit reports submitted to him or her under sections 33 and 44 of this Act, cause them to be laid before Parliament.46. Notices to Centre
A notice or document required to be served on the Centre may be served by leaving it at the office of the Executive Director or by sending it by pre-paid registered post to the Executive Director.47. Exemption
The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Board, by statutory instrument, exempt any person or class of persons from any provision of this Act.48. Regulations
49. Powers of Minister to amend Schedules
50. Transfer of assets and liabilities
51. Repeal of Cap. 222
The Branding of Stock Act is repealed.History of this document
31 December 2023
Consolidation
13 December 2002
Commenced by
Animal Breeding Act (Commencement) Instrument, 2002
15 June 2001 this version
25 May 2001
Assented to