Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 18 : Power of entry and inspection : For the purpose of ensuring that the rules made by it are being complied with, the Committee may authorise any of its officers or any other person in writing…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 17 : Duties of the Committee and power of the Committee to make rules relating to experiments on animals : (1) It shall be the duty of the Committee to take all such measures as may be…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 16 : Staff of the Committee : Subject to the control of the Central Government, the Committee may appoint such number of officers and other employees as may be necessary to enable it to exercise its powers…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 15A : 1.[Sub-Committees : (1) The Committee may constitute as many sub-Committees as it thinks fit for exercising any power or discharging any duty of the Committee or for inquiring into or reporting and advising on any…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 15 : Committee for control and supervision of experiments on animals : (1) If at any time, on the advice of the Board, the Central Government is of opinion that it is necessary so to do for…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Chapter IV : Experimentation Of Animals : Section 14 : Experiments on animals : Nothing contained in this Act shall render unlawful the performance of experiments (including experiments involving operations) on animals for the purpose of advancement by…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 13 : Destruction of suffering animals : (1) Where the owner of an animal is convicted of an offence under section 11, it shall be lawful for the Court, if the Court is satisfied that it would…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 12 : Penalty for practising phooka or doom dev : If any person performs upon any cow or other milch animal the operation called phooka or 1.[doom dev or any other operation (including injection of any substance)…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Chapter III : Cruelty To Animals Generally : Section 11 : Treating animals cruelly : (1) If any person- (a) beats, kicks, overrides overdrives, overloads, tortures or otherwise treats any animal so as to subject it to unnecessary…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 10 : Power of Board to make regulations : The Board may subject to the previous approval of the Central Government, make such regulations as it may think fit for the administration of its affairs and for…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 9 : Functions of the Board : The functions of the Board shall be,- (a) to keep the law in force in India for the prevention of cruelty to animals under constant study and advise the Government…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 8 : Funds of the Board : The funds of the Board shall consist of grants made to it from time to time by the Government and of contributions, donations, subscriptions, bequests, gifts and the like made…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 7 : Secretary and other employees of the Board : (1) The Central Government shall appoint 1.[***] the Secretary of the Board. (2) Subject to such rules as may be made by the Central Government in this…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 6 : 1.[Term of office and conditions of service of Members of the Board : (1) The term for which the Board may be reconstituted under section 5-A shall be three years from the date of the…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 5A : 1.[Reconstitution of the Board : (1) In order that the Chairman and other Members of the Board hold office till the same date and that their terms of office come to an end on the…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 5 : Constitution of the Board : (1) The Board shall consist of the following persons, namely:- (a) the Inspector-General of Forests, Government of India, ex officio ; (b) the Animal Husbandry Commissioner to the Government of…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Chapter II : 1.[Animal Welfare Board Of India] : Section 4 : Establishment of 1.[Animal Welfare Board of India] : (1) For the promotion of animal welfare generally and for the purpose of protecting animals from being subjected…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 3 : Duties of persons having charge of animals : It shall be the duty of every person having the care or charge of any animal to take all reasonable measures to ensure the well-being of such…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 Section 2 : Definitions : In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "animal" means any living creature other than a human being; 1.[(b) "Board" means the Board established under section 4, and as reconstituted from time…
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act 1960 (59 OF 1960) Statement of Objects and Reasons : Chapter I : Preliminary : Section 1 : Short title, extent and commencement : The Committee for the prevention of cruelty to animals appointed by the Government of India…