Animal Diseases Act, 1984 (Act No. 35 of 1984)

Regulations

1. Definitions

Purchase

1.	Any word or expression in these regulations to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act shall have that meaning and, unless the context otherwise indicates—

"cattle"

means also water buffalo;

"contact animal"

in relation to a controlled animal disease specified in column 1 of Table 2, means a susceptible animal that was in contact with or is on reasonable grounds suspected of having been in contact with an infected animal or the progeny or products thereof;

"controlled area"

(a)	in relation to a controlled animal disease specified in column 1 of Table 1, means the area specified in column 2 of the said Table opposite the animal disease concerned;

(b)	in relation to a controlled animal disease specified in column 1 of Table 2, means—

(i)	land on which an infected animal or a contact animal and the progeny or products thereof are detained in isolation as contemplated in regulation 13; and

(ii)	the area referred to in a notice in terms of section 9(1)(c) of the Act;

"destroy"

in relation to a controlled animal or thing, means to kill such animal and to bury, incinerate or otherwise dispose of such animal or thing;

"efficient remedy"

[Definition deleted by section 2(a) of Notice No. 2318, GG47133, dated 29 July 2022]

"effective remedy"

means a remedy registered in terms of the Fertilizers, Farm Feed, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, 1947 (Act 36 of 1947) for the particular purpose, or any medicine or veterinary medicine registered in terms of the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act, 1965 (Act 101 of 1965) for the particular purpose, or any medicine approved for a particular use by the director in writing;

[Definition inserted by section 2(b) of Notice No. 2318, GG47133, dated 29 July 2022]

"equines"

means horses, mules and donkeys;

"game"

means all animals that are not cattle, equines, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, domesticated cats or dogs, amphibians, reptiles, fish or birds, but shall not include animals in respect of which the owner is the holder of a licence issued in terms of the Protection of Trained Animals Act, 1935 (Act 24 of 1935);

"grandparents poultry flock"

means as a flock of parents of the parents of commercial pullets and broilers

[Definition inserted by section 2 of Notice No. R. 558, GG32234, dated 22 May 2009]

"infected animal"

in relation to a controlled animal disease specified in column 1 of Table 2, means susceptible animal that is infected, or is on reasonable grounds suspected to be infected with the controlled animal disease concerned;

"local authority"

means any institution or body referred to in section 84(1)(f), of the Provincial Government Act, 1961 (Act 32 of 1961), and includes—

(a)	an institution or body established under the Rural Coloured Areas Law, 1979 (Law 1 of 1979), of the Coloured Persons Representative Council of the Republic of South Africa;

(b)	a regional service council established under section 3 of the Regional Services Councils Act, 1985 (Act 109 of 1985);

(c)	a community council established under section 2 of the Community Councils Act, 1977 (Act 125 of 1977); or

(d)	a local authority as defined in section 1 of the Black Local Authorities Act, 1982 (Act 102 of 1982);

"notifiable animal disease"

an animal disease specified in Annexure 3;

[Definition inserted by section 2 of Notice No. R. 1023, GG15761, dated 27 May 1994]

"poultry"

means pigeons, ducks, geese, fowl, turkeys, cage birds, muscovies, domesticated ostriches, tamed wild birds and wild birds kept in captivity;

"quarantine master"

means an officer appointed in terms of section 5 (3) of the Act as a quarantine master of a particular quarantine station;

"responsible person"

means a manager or owner of land or an owner of animals;

"responsible State Veterinarian"

means that State Veterinarian who, in an area determined by the department, in responsible for the control of animal diseases;

"responsible technical officer"

means an officer of the department other than a State Veterinarian who is authorised to excercise, perform or render particular powers, duties or services relating to animal diseases in an area determined by the department;

[Definition substituted by section 2 of Notice No. R. 2358, GG15312, dated 10 December 1993]

"State Veterinarian"

means a veterinarian who is an officer of the department;

"susceptible animal"

in relation to a controlled animal disease specified in column 1 of Table 2, means an animal of a kind specified in column 3 of the said Table opposite the controlled animal disease in question; and

"the Act"

means the Animal Diseases Act, 1984 (Act 35 of 1984).

(2)	The things specified in paragraphs A and B of Annexure 1, shall for the purposes of the definitions of "infectious thing" and "contaminated thing" in section 1(1) of the Act, respectively be infectious things and contaminated things.