PUNJAB ANIMALS FEED STUFF AND COMPOUND FEED ACT 2016

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THE PUNJAB ANIMALS FEED STUFF AND COMPOUND 
FEED ACT 2016 
(LVII of 2016) 
CONTENTS 
1. Short title, extent and commencement 
2. Definitions 
3. Feed stuff or feed ingredient to be used in compound feed 
4. Licence for manufacture 
5. Renewal of licence 
6. Packing and labelling 
7. Quality control 
8. Adulteration, storage of adulterated feed stuff and misbranding 
9. Feed Inspection Officer 
10. Analytical laboratories 
11. Inspectors 
12. Sampling 
13. General powers of Inspectors 
14. Samples analysis 
15. Manner of sampling for analysis 
16. Analysis report 
17. Confiscation and disposal 
18. Penalties 
19. The Tribunal 
20. Cognizance of offence 
21. Appeal 
22. Indemnity 
23. Act to have overriding effect 
24. Delegation of powers 
25. Power to make rules 
26. Jurisdiction barred 
27. Repeal and savings 
 
TEXT 
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THE PUNJAB ANIMALS FEED STUFF AND COMPOUND FEED ACT 2016 
(LVII of 2016) 
[6th December 2016] 
An 
Act 
to regulate poultry production activities in the Punjab. 
 It is necessary to regulate the manufacture, storage, supply,  transport for sale 
and marketing of feed stuff and compound feed in the Province of the Punjab; to 
ensure standards of production and quality of feed stuff; to check adulteration and 
misbranding of poultry and livestock feed stuff and compound feed ingredients; and, 
to deal with ancillary matters. 
 Be it enacted by Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as follows:– 
1. Short title, extent and commencement .– (1) This Act may be cited as the 
Punjab Animals Feed Stuff and Compound Feed Act 2016. 
(2) It extends to whole of the Punjab. 
(3) It shall come into force at once. 
2. Definitions.– In this Act: 
(a) “Act” means the Punjab Animals Feed Stuff and Compound Feed Act 
2016; 
(b) “additive” means a substance or combination of substances added to 
the basic feed mix or parts thereof to obtain a specific biological growth 
and satisfy certain production needs; 
(c) “adulterated” in relation to feed stuff and compound feed means any 
feed stuff or compound feed which: 
(i) does not conform to the declaration made regarding its nature, 
substance or quality; or 
(ii) is manufactured by the use of dye or colouring agent to impart a 
certain color; or 
(iii) does not conform to the prescribed standards; or 
(iv) is spoiled or damaged or is fungus -infested and is harmful for 
animals; 
(d) “animals” include any species of livestock and poultry; 
(e) “authorized agent” means any person who deals in feed stuff and 
compound feed under an agreement or contract with the 
manufacturers; 
                                                           
1This Act was passed by the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab on 1 December 2016; assented to by the Governor of the 
Punjab on 5 December 2016; and, was published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated: 6 December 2016, pp.2911-
2917. 
(f) “authorized officer” means an officer authorized by the Government for 
purposes of the Act; 
(g) “cake” means the mass resulting from the pressing of seeds after 
removal of oils, fats or other liquids; 
(h) “Code” means the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898); 
(i) “complete feed” means a feed adequate to fulfill nutritive requirements 
of animals; 
(j) “compound feed” means any ground, pelleted, crumbled or mixture 
feed intended for the feeding of animals and includes: 
(i) complete feed including a customer formula feed; 
(ii) concentrated mixture to be fed as part of a ration with green 
forages, dry roughage or pasture; 
(iii) concentrate containing proteins, minerals or vitamins or a 
mixture thereof with grains, but does not include u nmixed whole 
seeds, and whole or ground hay straw, stover, silage, cobs and 
hulls when not mixed with other materials; 
(iv) the poultry compound feed as may be prescribed; 
(v) livestock compound feed according to growth, productive and 
reproductive status, as may be prescribed; and 
(vi) feed for other animals, as may be prescribed; 
(k) “concentrate” means a mixture of nutrients used with another nutrient 
to improve the nutritive balance of the feed and to be further diluted 
and mixed to produce a supplement or a complete feed for animals; 
(l) “crumble” means coarsely ground form of pelleted feed; 
(m) “customer formula feed” means any type of mixture which may contain 
more than one feed stuff; 
(n) “drug” means a substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cu re, 
mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in animals; 
(o) “Feed Inspection Officer” means an inspection officer appointed under 
section 9 of the Act; 
(p) “feed mill” means an automatic or semi -automatic plant for 
manufacturing of compound feed or customer formula feed possessing 
experimental facilities to conduct biological trials and a laboratory of the 
standard to carry out proximate analysis and mycotoxin estimation of 
compound feed; 
(q) “feed stuff” or “feed ingredient” means any nutritious sub stance used in 
the production and manufacture of compound feed; 
(r) “Government” means Government of the Punjab; 
(s) “Inspector” means an inspector appointed under section 11 of the Act; 
(t) “Licencing Authority” means an officer appointed under section 9 of the 
Act for grant of licence; 
(u) “meal” means the ingredient which has been grounded or otherwise 
reduced in particle size for consumption by animals; 
(v) “micro-ingredients” mean vitamins, amino acids, minerals and other 
nutritive materials normally r equired in small amounts and measured 
as per national and international standards; 
(w) “misbranded” means misuse of registered trade name; 
(x) “pellet” means ground feed transformed into small discs of variable size 
by means of mechanical process; 
(y) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under the Act;  
(z) “sale” in relation to feed stuff and compound feed means transfer of 
ownership, oral or in writing, either final in lieu of price paid or promised or 
part paid and part promised or through barter;  
(aa) “silage” means anaerobically preserved fermented fodder or feed stuff 
prepared and preserved through a prescribed process with or without 
adding inoculum for feeding ruminants; and 
(bb) “Tribunal” means Tribunal constituted under section 38 of the P unjab 
Livestock Breeding Act 2014 (XIII of 2014). 
3. Feed stuff or feed ingredient to be used in compound feed .– (1) The feed 
stuff or feed ingredient to be used for feeding the livestock or the manufacture of 
compound feed for poultry and livestock, may include the following: 
(a) roughages: 
 green fodder, silage, hay, treated or untreated wheat straw; 
(b) macro-ingredients: 
(i) cereals or coarse grains: 
 maize or corn, broken rice (toota), nakoo, sorghum or milo, 
wheat, barley; 
(ii) vegetable protein sources which mean cotton seed meal or cake 
(Khal Banola), rapeseed or canola meal or cake, sunflower meal or 
cake, soybean meal, sesame cake (til cake) or meal, linseed cake, 
maize or corn oil cake, maize or corn gluten feed, maize or corn 
gluten meal, palm -kernel cake, rice polishing, rice protein meal, 
wheat bran, rice bran meal, matri, guar meal, pulses meal, Naan or 
roti tukra, confectionaries waste or byproducts; 
(iii) animal protein sources which means fish meal, blood meal, 
meat meal, feather meal or pou ltry byproduct meal, meat and 
bone scraps or byproducts; and 
(iv) industrial and agricultural products or by -products which mean 
molasses, fats and oils, di-calcium phosphate, limestone, marble 
powder, natural products, oyster shell, bone meal, bagasse, 
straws, stovers, hulls, cobs, fruit, barseem meal; 
(c) micro-ingredients: 
(i) vitamins: 
vitamin A, vitamin B3, vitamin D3, vitamin E, vitamin K3, 
thiamine, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, niacin, pyridoxine, biotin, 
choline, folacin, vitamin B12; 
(ii) mineral compounds or salts: 
calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, chlorine, copper, 
iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, selenium, zinc, ferrous, 
cobalt; and 
(iii) amino acids; 
(d) feed additives: 
(i) coccidiostats, antioxidants, enzymes, anti -fungal or antitoxin  
products;  
(ii) live yeast, by-pass fats; 
(iii) premixes; and 
(iv) drugs.  
(2) The Government may, by notification, declare any feed stuff to be used 
in the manufacture of compound feed for poultry and livestock, other than those 
mentioned under subsection (1). 
(3) The manufacturer shall include any feed stuff as mentioned in clauses 
(a), (b), (c) and (d) of subsection (1), in order to meet the nutritive requirements in 
the given animal compound feed. 
(4) The use of any feed stuff of porcine origin in comp ound feed is 
prohibited. 
4. Licence for manufacture .– (1) No person shall manufacture, store, supply,  
transport for sale and marketing of feed stuff and compound feed unless he holds a 
licence issued under this Act after fulfillment of such conditions and payment of such 
fee, as may be prescribed. 
(2) The Feed Inspection Officer may refuse to grant licence to any person 
if the application for licence has not been made in the prescribed manner. 
(3) No order under subsection (2) shall be made unless the appli cant has 
been provided a reasonable opportunity of being heard. 
(4) The applicant may appeal against the order made under subsection (2) 
to such authority and in such manner as may be prescribed. 
5. Renewal of licence .– The licence issued under this Act sh all be renewed 
annually on payment of prescribed fee. 
6. Packing and labelling .– No feed stuff and compound feed other than fresh 
fodder, shall be sold unless it is packed, branded and labelled in such manner as 
may be prescribed. 
7. Quality control.– (1) All feed stuff and compound feed shall conform to the 
specifications and standards as prescribed.  
 (2) The manufacturer of any feed stuff and compound feed shall ensure 
that a label containing the following particulars is displayed on the feed bag or 
packing: 
(a) the name under which the article is sold; 
(b) complete address of the manufacturer; 
(c)  date of manufacture or packing; 
(d) date of expiry; 
(e) nutritive composition of compound feed or feed stuff including its 
moisture-content; and 
(f) declaration of Aflatoxin level. 
8. Adulteration, storage of adulterated feed stuff and misbranding.– No person 
shall, in contravention of any provision of this Act or the rules framed thereunder, 
directly or indirectly, prepare, manufacture, keep or store for use or sale, or sell or offer 
to sell any feed stuff and compound feed which is adulterated or misbranded. 
9. Feed Inspection Officer .– (1) The Government may, by notification, appoint 
Feed Inspection Officer or authorize any other officer for purposes of this Act. 
 (2) The Feed Inspection Officer appointed or authorized under subsection 
(1) shall also be the Licensing Authority. 
10. Analytical laboratories .– The Government may, by notification, approve 
analytical laboratories in the public sector for purposes o f this Act, for the whole or 
any part of Province of the Punjab, for any specified compound feed or generally for 
all feed stuff and compound feed. 
11. Inspectors.– (1) The Government may appoint Inspectors in respect of all or 
any feed stuff and compound feed, and an Inspector so appointed shall have 
jurisdiction in such area as the Government may notify. 
(2) The Feed Inspection Officer or the authorized officer may also exercise 
the powers and perform the functions of an Inspector under this Act, within t he limits 
of his jurisdiction. 
12. Sampling.– (1) An Inspector shall, for the purpose of analysis, at any time, 
collect a sample of feed stuff and compound feed sold, offered for sale, or stored by 
manufacturer or kept in feed mill or held by his authorized agent.  
(2) No person shall refuse the Inspector from collecting feed stuff and 
compound feed for the purpose of subsection (1) in such quantity and from such 
packing as he may direct. 
(3) If any person contravenes the provisions of subsection (2), the 
Inspector may, without prejudice to any penalty to which such person may be liable 
for such contravention, seize up to twenty kilogram of the feed stuff and compound 
feed and give such person a certificate showing the nature and quantity of the feed 
stuff and compound feed seized, the date, time and place of seizure. 
(4) The Inspector shall, prepare in such form, as may be prescribed, a 
declaration in triplicate containing full particulars relating to the sample seized and 
such declaration shall be signed or  marked by both the Inspector and the person 
from whose possession, custody or control the compound feed and feed stuff has 
been seized, and a copy thereof shall be given to such person. 
(5) When a sample is taken from the stock in the possession of an authorized 
agent as required under subsection (3) of section 13, the authorized agent shall be 
bound to give the name and such other particulars of the person on whose behalf such 
stock is held by him, as the Inspector may require. 
13. General powers of Inspe ctors.– (1) An Inspector may, without any prior 
notice, enter upon any premises used for preparation, manufacture, packing, storage 
or sale of feed stuff or compound feed for the purpose of: 
(a) collection of sample; or 
(b) general inspection and examination of feed stuff and compound feed. 
(2) An Inspector, after satisfying himself of any gross contravention of 
provisions of this Act, may seal or seize the premises, or part thereof, for a period 
not exceeding seventy two hours, for the purpose of preservat ion of material 
evidence or securing case property. 
(3) In order to assess the quality of feed stuff and compound feed, the 
Inspector shall take samples of the same batch of feed stuff or compound feed from 
the farmer, authorized agent and the feed mill within a period of fifteen days from the 
date of purchase. 
(4) If any such feed stuff and compound feed, on analysis, is found to be 
not of the quality which it purports to be or if there is any contravention of the 
provisions of the Act, the manufacturer or seller shall be dealt with under section 17. 
14. Samples analysis .– (1) Any person who has purchased the feed stuff and 
compound feed for his animals or feed mill and possesses a voucher or cash memo 
thereof, may make an application in writing to get his feed stuff or compound feed 
samples analyzed from approved laboratory for quality check by an Inspector having 
the jurisdiction. 
(2) The cost of analysis of the sample shall be payable by the person 
making the application. 
(3) The cost of analysis shall be  in accordance with the rates of laboratory 
approved for different tests by the Government. 
(4) The samples collected by the Inspectors for general inspection and 
examination of feed stuff and compound feed shall be analyzed without cost of 
analysis.  
15. Manner of sampling for analysis .– (1) An Inspector shall, after collecting or 
seizing any feed stuff or compound feed with the intention of submitting the same for 
analysis, divide such feed stuff or compound feed in four parts.  
(2) Each part shall be marked, sealed and fastened in air tight container in 
the manner prescribed so that the nature and character of the content may not 
change, mentioning thereon date and time of sampling. 
(3) An Inspector shall: 
(a) deliver two parts to the person from whom the sample is taken; 
(b) retain one part for future comparison; and 
(c) submit one part to the authorized laboratory. 
16. Analysis report.– (1) The authorized laboratory shall, on receiving any sample 
of feed stuff or compound feed from an Inspector, analyze the same and deliver or send 
to the Inspector a report on the prescribed Form showing the result of such analysis 
within two weeks, on payment of such fee as may be prescribed. 
(2) A copy of such report may be obtained from the approved laboratory, 
by the person from whom the article so analyzed was collected or the person who 
has got his feed analyzed, upon making an application and payment of prescribed 
fee. 
(3) No person shall display copy of report on any premises or use it for 
purposes of an advertisement. 
17. Confiscation and disposal .– (1) A Feed Inspection Officer or an authorized 
officer or Inspector shall,  in case of manufacture, storage, supply,  transport for sale 
and marketing of feed stuff or compound feed without licence or involvement in the 
practice of misbranding or adulteration, confiscate such feed stuff, compound feed 
and machinery, and dispose it of in such manner as may be prescribed. 
(2) The court, trying an offence, may direct that any feed stuff or 
compound feed in respect of which th e court is satisfied that an offence under this 
Act has been committed, be forfeited to the Government in accordance with the law, 
and shall be disposed of through burial, incineration or such other manner as may be 
prescribed. 
(3) A Feed Inspection Office r or an authorized officer or Inspector, for 
expeditious disposal of feed stuff or compound feed, shall immediately submit a 
request to the court for obtaining appropriate orders.  
18. Penalties.– (1) If a person contravenes any provision of this Act, he shall: 
(a) on first conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which 
may extend to six months but which shall not be less than sixty days 
and with fine which may extend to two hundred thousand rupees but 
which shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees; 
(b) on second conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which 
may extend to one year but which shall not be less than six months 
and with fine which may extend to three hundred thousand rupees but 
which shall not be less than two hundred thousand rupees; and 
(c) on third or any subsequent conviction thereafter, be punished with 
imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years but which shall 
not be less than one year and with fine which may extend to five 
hundred thousand rupees but  which shall not be less than three 
hundred thousand rupees. 
(2) An attempt to contravene any provision of the Act or the rules and an 
abetment of such contravention shall be punished as an offence under the Act. 
19. The Tribunal.– An offence punishable un der this Act shall be exclusively 
triable by the Tribunal in accordance with the provisions of the Code as if the 
Tribunal were a court of sessions. 
20. Cognizance of offence.– The Tribunal shall not take cognizance of an offence 
punishable under this Act except on the complaint filed by the Feed Inspection Officer 
or Inspector or any other officer authorized in this behalf. 
21. Appeal.– Any person aggrieved by a final order of the Tribunal may, within 
thirty days of the passing of the order, prefer an appeal to Lahore High Court. 
22. Indemnity.– No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against 
Feed Inspection Officer, Inspector or authorized officer for any action taken in good 
faith under this Act.  
23. Act to have overriding effect .– The provisions of this Act shall have effect 
notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law. 
24. Delegation of powers .– The Government may delegate all or any of its 
powers under this Act to the Feed Inspection Officer or any other officer authorized 
by it. 
25. Power to make rules .– The Government may, by notification, make rules for 
carrying out purposes of this Act. 
26. Jurisdiction barred .– Save as provided under this Act, no order made or 
proceeding taken under the Act or the rule made t hereunder, shall be called in 
question in any civil court and no injunction shall be granted by any court in respect 
to any decision or proceedings taken in pursuance of any power conferred by or 
under the Act or rules made thereunder. 
27. Repeal and savin gs.– (1) The Punjab Animals Compound Feed and Feed 
Stuff Ordinance, 2002 (LXVIII of 2002), is hereby repealed. 
(2) Notwithstanding the repeal, all acts done or intended to have been 
done under the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or intende d to 
have been done under this Act.