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  "text": "THE PUNJAB ANIMALS FEED STUFF AND COMPOUND \r\nFEED ACT 2016 \r\n(LVII of 2016) \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement \r\n2. Definitions \r\n3. Feed stuff or feed ingredient to be used in compound feed \r\n4. Licence for manufacture \r\n5. Renewal of licence \r\n6. Packing and labelling \r\n7. Quality control \r\n8. Adulteration, storage of adulterated feed stuff and misbranding \r\n9. Feed Inspection Officer \r\n10. Analytical laboratories \r\n11. Inspectors \r\n12. Sampling \r\n13. General powers of Inspectors \r\n14. Samples analysis \r\n15. Manner of sampling for analysis \r\n16. Analysis report \r\n17. Confiscation and disposal \r\n18. Penalties \r\n19. The Tribunal \r\n20. Cognizance of offence \r\n21. Appeal \r\n22. Indemnity \r\n23. Act to have overriding effect \r\n24. Delegation of powers \r\n25. Power to make rules \r\n26. Jurisdiction barred \r\n27. Repeal and savings \r\n \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE PUNJAB ANIMALS FEED STUFF AND COMPOUND FEED ACT 2016 \r\n(LVII of 2016) \r\n[6th December 2016] \r\nAn \r\nAct \r\nto regulate poultry production activities in the Punjab. \r\n It is necessary to regulate the manufacture, storage, supply,  transport for sale \r\nand marketing of feed stuff and compound feed in the Province of the Punjab; to \r\nensure standards of production and quality of feed stuff; to check adulteration and \r\nmisbranding of poultry and livestock feed stuff and compound feed ingredients; and, \r\nto deal with ancillary matters. \r\n Be it enacted by Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as follows:– \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement .– (1) This Act may be cited as the \r\nPunjab Animals Feed Stuff and Compound Feed Act 2016. \r\n(2) It extends to whole of the Punjab. \r\n(3) It shall come into force at once. \r\n2. Definitions.– In this Act: \r\n(a) “Act” means the Punjab Animals Feed Stuff and Compound Feed Act \r\n2016; \r\n(b) “additive” means a substance or combination of substances added to \r\nthe basic feed mix or parts thereof to obtain a specific biological growth \r\nand satisfy certain production needs; \r\n(c) “adulterated” in relation to feed stuff and compound feed means any \r\nfeed stuff or compound feed which: \r\n(i) does not conform to the declaration made regarding its nature, \r\nsubstance or quality; or \r\n(ii) is manufactured by the use of dye or colouring agent to impart a \r\ncertain color; or \r\n(iii) does not conform to the prescribed standards; or \r\n(iv) is spoiled or damaged or is fungus -infested and is harmful for \r\nanimals; \r\n(d) “animals” include any species of livestock and poultry; \r\n(e) “authorized agent” means any person who deals in feed stuff and \r\ncompound feed under an agreement or contract with the \r\nmanufacturers; \r\n                                                           \r\n1This Act was passed by the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab on 1 December 2016; assented to by the Governor of the \r\nPunjab on 5 December 2016; and, was published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated: 6 December 2016, pp.2911-\r\n2917. \r\n(f) “authorized officer” means an officer authorized by the Government for \r\npurposes of the Act; \r\n(g) “cake” means the mass resulting from the pressing of seeds after \r\nremoval of oils, fats or other liquids; \r\n(h) “Code” means the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898); \r\n(i) “complete feed” means a feed adequate to fulfill nutritive requirements \r\nof animals; \r\n(j) “compound feed” means any ground, pelleted, crumbled or mixture \r\nfeed intended for the feeding of animals and includes: \r\n(i) complete feed including a customer formula feed; \r\n(ii) concentrated mixture to be fed as part of a ration with green \r\nforages, dry roughage or pasture; \r\n(iii) concentrate containing proteins, minerals or vitamins or a \r\nmixture thereof with grains, but does not include u nmixed whole \r\nseeds, and whole or ground hay straw, stover, silage, cobs and \r\nhulls when not mixed with other materials; \r\n(iv) the poultry compound feed as may be prescribed; \r\n(v) livestock compound feed according to growth, productive and \r\nreproductive status, as may be prescribed; and \r\n(vi) feed for other animals, as may be prescribed; \r\n(k) “concentrate” means a mixture of nutrients used with another nutrient \r\nto improve the nutritive balance of the feed and to be further diluted \r\nand mixed to produce a supplement or a complete feed for animals; \r\n(l) “crumble” means coarsely ground form of pelleted feed; \r\n(m) “customer formula feed” means any type of mixture which may contain \r\nmore than one feed stuff; \r\n(n) “drug” means a substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cu re, \r\nmitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in animals; \r\n(o) “Feed Inspection Officer” means an inspection officer appointed under \r\nsection 9 of the Act; \r\n(p) “feed mill” means an automatic or semi -automatic plant for \r\nmanufacturing of compound feed or customer formula feed possessing \r\nexperimental facilities to conduct biological trials and a laboratory of the \r\nstandard to carry out proximate analysis and mycotoxin estimation of \r\ncompound feed; \r\n(q) “feed stuff” or “feed ingredient” means any nutritious sub stance used in \r\nthe production and manufacture of compound feed; \r\n(r) “Government” means Government of the Punjab; \r\n(s) “Inspector” means an inspector appointed under section 11 of the Act; \r\n(t) “Licencing Authority” means an officer appointed under section 9 of the \r\nAct for grant of licence; \r\n(u) “meal” means the ingredient which has been grounded or otherwise \r\nreduced in particle size for consumption by animals; \r\n(v) “micro-ingredients” mean vitamins, amino acids, minerals and other \r\nnutritive materials normally r equired in small amounts and measured \r\nas per national and international standards; \r\n(w) “misbranded” means misuse of registered trade name; \r\n(x) “pellet” means ground feed transformed into small discs of variable size \r\nby means of mechanical process; \r\n(y) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under the Act;  \r\n(z) “sale” in relation to feed stuff and compound feed means transfer of \r\nownership, oral or in writing, either final in lieu of price paid or promised or \r\npart paid and part promised or through barter;  \r\n(aa) “silage” means anaerobically preserved fermented fodder or feed stuff \r\nprepared and preserved through a prescribed process with or without \r\nadding inoculum for feeding ruminants; and \r\n(bb) “Tribunal” means Tribunal constituted under section 38 of the P unjab \r\nLivestock Breeding Act 2014 (XIII of 2014). \r\n3. Feed stuff or feed ingredient to be used in compound feed .– (1) The feed \r\nstuff or feed ingredient to be used for feeding the livestock or the manufacture of \r\ncompound feed for poultry and livestock, may include the following: \r\n(a) roughages: \r\n green fodder, silage, hay, treated or untreated wheat straw; \r\n(b) macro-ingredients: \r\n(i) cereals or coarse grains: \r\n maize or corn, broken rice (toota), nakoo, sorghum or milo, \r\nwheat, barley; \r\n(ii) vegetable protein sources which mean cotton seed meal or cake \r\n(Khal Banola), rapeseed or canola meal or cake, sunflower meal or \r\ncake, soybean meal, sesame cake (til cake) or meal, linseed cake, \r\nmaize or corn oil cake, maize or corn gluten feed, maize or corn \r\ngluten meal, palm -kernel cake, rice polishing, rice protein meal, \r\nwheat bran, rice bran meal, matri, guar meal, pulses meal, Naan or \r\nroti tukra, confectionaries waste or byproducts; \r\n(iii) animal protein sources which means fish meal, blood meal, \r\nmeat meal, feather meal or pou ltry byproduct meal, meat and \r\nbone scraps or byproducts; and \r\n(iv) industrial and agricultural products or by -products which mean \r\nmolasses, fats and oils, di-calcium phosphate, limestone, marble \r\npowder, natural products, oyster shell, bone meal, bagasse, \r\nstraws, stovers, hulls, cobs, fruit, barseem meal; \r\n(c) micro-ingredients: \r\n(i) vitamins: \r\nvitamin A, vitamin B3, vitamin D3, vitamin E, vitamin K3, \r\nthiamine, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, niacin, pyridoxine, biotin, \r\ncholine, folacin, vitamin B12; \r\n(ii) mineral compounds or salts: \r\ncalcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, chlorine, copper, \r\niodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, selenium, zinc, ferrous, \r\ncobalt; and \r\n(iii) amino acids; \r\n(d) feed additives: \r\n(i) coccidiostats, antioxidants, enzymes, anti -fungal or antitoxin  \r\nproducts;  \r\n(ii) live yeast, by-pass fats; \r\n(iii) premixes; and \r\n(iv) drugs.  \r\n(2) The Government may, by notification, declare any feed stuff to be used \r\nin the manufacture of compound feed for poultry and livestock, other than those \r\nmentioned under subsection (1). \r\n(3) The manufacturer shall include any feed stuff as mentioned in clauses \r\n(a), (b), (c) and (d) of subsection (1), in order to meet the nutritive requirements in \r\nthe given animal compound feed. \r\n(4) The use of any feed stuff of porcine origin in comp ound feed is \r\nprohibited. \r\n4. Licence for manufacture .– (1) No person shall manufacture, store, supply,  \r\ntransport for sale and marketing of feed stuff and compound feed unless he holds a \r\nlicence issued under this Act after fulfillment of such conditions and payment of such \r\nfee, as may be prescribed. \r\n(2) The Feed Inspection Officer may refuse to grant licence to any person \r\nif the application for licence has not been made in the prescribed manner. \r\n(3) No order under subsection (2) shall be made unless the appli cant has \r\nbeen provided a reasonable opportunity of being heard. \r\n(4) The applicant may appeal against the order made under subsection (2) \r\nto such authority and in such manner as may be prescribed. \r\n5. Renewal of licence .– The licence issued under this Act sh all be renewed \r\nannually on payment of prescribed fee. \r\n6. Packing and labelling .– No feed stuff and compound feed other than fresh \r\nfodder, shall be sold unless it is packed, branded and labelled in such manner as \r\nmay be prescribed. \r\n7. Quality control.– (1) All feed stuff and compound feed shall conform to the \r\nspecifications and standards as prescribed.  \r\n (2) The manufacturer of any feed stuff and compound feed shall ensure \r\nthat a label containing the following particulars is displayed on the feed bag or \r\npacking: \r\n(a) the name under which the article is sold; \r\n(b) complete address of the manufacturer; \r\n(c)  date of manufacture or packing; \r\n(d) date of expiry; \r\n(e) nutritive composition of compound feed or feed stuff including its \r\nmoisture-content; and \r\n(f) declaration of Aflatoxin level. \r\n8. Adulteration, storage of adulterated feed stuff and misbranding.– No person \r\nshall, in contravention of any provision of this Act or the rules framed thereunder, \r\ndirectly or indirectly, prepare, manufacture, keep or store for use or sale, or sell or offer \r\nto sell any feed stuff and compound feed which is adulterated or misbranded. \r\n9. Feed Inspection Officer .– (1) The Government may, by notification, appoint \r\nFeed Inspection Officer or authorize any other officer for purposes of this Act. \r\n (2) The Feed Inspection Officer appointed or authorized under subsection \r\n(1) shall also be the Licensing Authority. \r\n10. Analytical laboratories .– The Government may, by notification, approve \r\nanalytical laboratories in the public sector for purposes o f this Act, for the whole or \r\nany part of Province of the Punjab, for any specified compound feed or generally for \r\nall feed stuff and compound feed. \r\n11. Inspectors.– (1) The Government may appoint Inspectors in respect of all or \r\nany feed stuff and compound feed, and an Inspector so appointed shall have \r\njurisdiction in such area as the Government may notify. \r\n(2) The Feed Inspection Officer or the authorized officer may also exercise \r\nthe powers and perform the functions of an Inspector under this Act, within t he limits \r\nof his jurisdiction. \r\n12. Sampling.– (1) An Inspector shall, for the purpose of analysis, at any time, \r\ncollect a sample of feed stuff and compound feed sold, offered for sale, or stored by \r\nmanufacturer or kept in feed mill or held by his authorized agent.  \r\n(2) No person shall refuse the Inspector from collecting feed stuff and \r\ncompound feed for the purpose of subsection (1) in such quantity and from such \r\npacking as he may direct. \r\n(3) If any person contravenes the provisions of subsection (2), the \r\nInspector may, without prejudice to any penalty to which such person may be liable \r\nfor such contravention, seize up to twenty kilogram of the feed stuff and compound \r\nfeed and give such person a certificate showing the nature and quantity of the feed \r\nstuff and compound feed seized, the date, time and place of seizure. \r\n(4) The Inspector shall, prepare in such form, as may be prescribed, a \r\ndeclaration in triplicate containing full particulars relating to the sample seized and \r\nsuch declaration shall be signed or  marked by both the Inspector and the person \r\nfrom whose possession, custody or control the compound feed and feed stuff has \r\nbeen seized, and a copy thereof shall be given to such person. \r\n(5) When a sample is taken from the stock in the possession of an authorized \r\nagent as required under subsection (3) of section 13, the authorized agent shall be \r\nbound to give the name and such other particulars of the person on whose behalf such \r\nstock is held by him, as the Inspector may require. \r\n13. General powers of Inspe ctors.– (1) An Inspector may, without any prior \r\nnotice, enter upon any premises used for preparation, manufacture, packing, storage \r\nor sale of feed stuff or compound feed for the purpose of: \r\n(a) collection of sample; or \r\n(b) general inspection and examination of feed stuff and compound feed. \r\n(2) An Inspector, after satisfying himself of any gross contravention of \r\nprovisions of this Act, may seal or seize the premises, or part thereof, for a period \r\nnot exceeding seventy two hours, for the purpose of preservat ion of material \r\nevidence or securing case property. \r\n(3) In order to assess the quality of feed stuff and compound feed, the \r\nInspector shall take samples of the same batch of feed stuff or compound feed from \r\nthe farmer, authorized agent and the feed mill within a period of fifteen days from the \r\ndate of purchase. \r\n(4) If any such feed stuff and compound feed, on analysis, is found to be \r\nnot of the quality which it purports to be or if there is any contravention of the \r\nprovisions of the Act, the manufacturer or seller shall be dealt with under section 17. \r\n14. Samples analysis .– (1) Any person who has purchased the feed stuff and \r\ncompound feed for his animals or feed mill and possesses a voucher or cash memo \r\nthereof, may make an application in writing to get his feed stuff or compound feed \r\nsamples analyzed from approved laboratory for quality check by an Inspector having \r\nthe jurisdiction. \r\n(2) The cost of analysis of the sample shall be payable by the person \r\nmaking the application. \r\n(3) The cost of analysis shall be  in accordance with the rates of laboratory \r\napproved for different tests by the Government. \r\n(4) The samples collected by the Inspectors for general inspection and \r\nexamination of feed stuff and compound feed shall be analyzed without cost of \r\nanalysis.  \r\n15. Manner of sampling for analysis .– (1) An Inspector shall, after collecting or \r\nseizing any feed stuff or compound feed with the intention of submitting the same for \r\nanalysis, divide such feed stuff or compound feed in four parts.  \r\n(2) Each part shall be marked, sealed and fastened in air tight container in \r\nthe manner prescribed so that the nature and character of the content may not \r\nchange, mentioning thereon date and time of sampling. \r\n(3) An Inspector shall: \r\n(a) deliver two parts to the person from whom the sample is taken; \r\n(b) retain one part for future comparison; and \r\n(c) submit one part to the authorized laboratory. \r\n16. Analysis report.– (1) The authorized laboratory shall, on receiving any sample \r\nof feed stuff or compound feed from an Inspector, analyze the same and deliver or send \r\nto the Inspector a report on the prescribed Form showing the result of such analysis \r\nwithin two weeks, on payment of such fee as may be prescribed. \r\n(2) A copy of such report may be obtained from the approved laboratory, \r\nby the person from whom the article so analyzed was collected or the person who \r\nhas got his feed analyzed, upon making an application and payment of prescribed \r\nfee. \r\n(3) No person shall display copy of report on any premises or use it for \r\npurposes of an advertisement. \r\n17. Confiscation and disposal .– (1) A Feed Inspection Officer or an authorized \r\nofficer or Inspector shall,  in case of manufacture, storage, supply,  transport for sale \r\nand marketing of feed stuff or compound feed without licence or involvement in the \r\npractice of misbranding or adulteration, confiscate such feed stuff, compound feed \r\nand machinery, and dispose it of in such manner as may be prescribed. \r\n(2) The court, trying an offence, may direct that any feed stuff or \r\ncompound feed in respect of which th e court is satisfied that an offence under this \r\nAct has been committed, be forfeited to the Government in accordance with the law, \r\nand shall be disposed of through burial, incineration or such other manner as may be \r\nprescribed. \r\n(3) A Feed Inspection Office r or an authorized officer or Inspector, for \r\nexpeditious disposal of feed stuff or compound feed, shall immediately submit a \r\nrequest to the court for obtaining appropriate orders.  \r\n18. Penalties.– (1) If a person contravenes any provision of this Act, he shall: \r\n(a) on first conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which \r\nmay extend to six months but which shall not be less than sixty days \r\nand with fine which may extend to two hundred thousand rupees but \r\nwhich shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees; \r\n(b) on second conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which \r\nmay extend to one year but which shall not be less than six months \r\nand with fine which may extend to three hundred thousand rupees but \r\nwhich shall not be less than two hundred thousand rupees; and \r\n(c) on third or any subsequent conviction thereafter, be punished with \r\nimprisonment for a term which may extend to two years but which shall \r\nnot be less than one year and with fine which may extend to five \r\nhundred thousand rupees but  which shall not be less than three \r\nhundred thousand rupees. \r\n(2) An attempt to contravene any provision of the Act or the rules and an \r\nabetment of such contravention shall be punished as an offence under the Act. \r\n19. The Tribunal.– An offence punishable un der this Act shall be exclusively \r\ntriable by the Tribunal in accordance with the provisions of the Code as if the \r\nTribunal were a court of sessions. \r\n20. Cognizance of offence.– The Tribunal shall not take cognizance of an offence \r\npunishable under this Act except on the complaint filed by the Feed Inspection Officer \r\nor Inspector or any other officer authorized in this behalf. \r\n21. Appeal.– Any person aggrieved by a final order of the Tribunal may, within \r\nthirty days of the passing of the order, prefer an appeal to Lahore High Court. \r\n22. Indemnity.– No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against \r\nFeed Inspection Officer, Inspector or authorized officer for any action taken in good \r\nfaith under this Act.  \r\n23. Act to have overriding effect .– The provisions of this Act shall have effect \r\nnotwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law. \r\n24. Delegation of powers .– The Government may delegate all or any of its \r\npowers under this Act to the Feed Inspection Officer or any other officer authorized \r\nby it. \r\n25. Power to make rules .– The Government may, by notification, make rules for \r\ncarrying out purposes of this Act. \r\n26. Jurisdiction barred .– Save as provided under this Act, no order made or \r\nproceeding taken under the Act or the rule made t hereunder, shall be called in \r\nquestion in any civil court and no injunction shall be granted by any court in respect \r\nto any decision or proceedings taken in pursuance of any power conferred by or \r\nunder the Act or rules made thereunder. \r\n27. Repeal and savin gs.– (1) The Punjab Animals Compound Feed and Feed \r\nStuff Ordinance, 2002 (LXVIII of 2002), is hereby repealed. \r\n(2) Notwithstanding the repeal, all acts done or intended to have been \r\ndone under the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or intende d to \r\nhave been done under this Act.",
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