Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960
Bare Act · 1960
An Act to prevent the infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering on animals and for that purpose to amend the law relating to the prevention of cruelty to animals.
- Act number
- 59 of 1960
- Enacted
- 26 December 1960
- Contents
- 44 sections · 6 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Section 3 – Duties of persons having charge of animals
Chapter II — Animal Welfare Board Of India
- Section 4 – Establishment of Animal Welfare Board of India
- Section 5 – Constitution of the Board
- Section 5A – Reconstitution of the Board (preview)
- Section 6 – Term of office and conditions of service of members of the Board (preview)
- Section 7 – Secretary and other employees of the Board (preview)
- Section 8 – Funds of the Board (preview)
- Section 9 – Functions of the Board (preview)
- Section 10 – Power of Board to make regulations (preview)
Chapter III — Cruelty To Animals Generally
- Section 11 – Treating animals cruelly (preview)
- Section 12 – Penalty for practising phooka or doom dev (preview)
- Section 13 – Destruction of suffering animals (preview)
Chapter IV — Experimentation On Animals
- Section 14 – Experiments on animals (preview)
- Section 15 – Committee for control and supervision of experiments on animals (preview)
- Section 15A – Sub-committees (preview)
- Section 16 – Staff of the Committee (preview)
- Section 17 – Duties of the Committee and power of the Committee to make rules relating to experiments on animals (preview)
- Section 18 – Power of entry and inspection (preview)
- Section 19 – Power to prohibit experiments on animals (preview)
- Section 20 – Penalties (preview)
Chapter V — Performing Animals
- Section 21 – “Exhibit” and “train” defined (preview)
- Section 22 – Restriction on exhibition and training of performing animals (preview)
- Section 23 – Procedure for registration (preview)
- Section 24 – Power of court to prohibit or restrict exhibition and training of performing animals (preview)
- Section 25 – Power to enter premises (preview)
- Section 26 – Offences (preview)
- Section 27 – Exemptions (preview)
Chapter VI — Miscellaneous
- Section 28 – Saving as respects manner of killing prescribed by religion (preview)
- Section 29 – Power of court to deprive person convicted of ownership of animal (preview)
- Section 30 – Presumption as to guilt in certain cases (preview)
- Section 31 – Cognizability of offences (preview)
- Section 32 – Power of search and seizure (preview)
- Section 33 – Search warrants (preview)
- Section 34 – General power of seizure for examination (preview)
- Section 35 – Treatment and care of animals (preview)
- Section 36 – Limitation of prosecutions (preview)
- Section 37 – Delegation of powers (preview)
- Section 38 – Power to make rules (preview)
- Section 38A – Rules and regulations to be laid before Parliament (preview)
- Section 39 – Persons authorised under section 34 to be public servants (preview)
- Section 40 – Indemnity (preview)
- Section 41 – Repeal of Act 11 of 1890 (preview)