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Animal Improvement Act, 1998 (Act No. 62 of 1998)

13. Restriction of certain actions in respect of animals and genetic material

 

(1) No person shall—
(a) collect, evaluate, process, pack or store embryos or ova unless—
(i) he or she is registered as an embryo collector in terms of section 8; or
(ii) he or she is the owner of an animal from which the embryos or ova are collected, evaluated, processed, packed or stored;
(b) import genetic material on behalf of another person unless he or she is registered as an import agent in terms of section 8.

 

(2) If a person who is registered as a semen collector, inseminator, embryo collector or embryo transferor in terms of section 8, artificially inseminates an animal or transfers ova or embryos into a recipient female animal, he or she shall provide the owner of such animal with a certificate containing the prescribed particulars.