Animal identification IS ESSENTIAL
July 2024
The previous Pula Imvula featured an article, ‘stock theft under the spotlight’. The Stock Theft Act (Act 57 of 1959) and the Animal Identification Act (Act 6 of 2002) give clear guidelines, so make sure you know the law!
Here are some of the guidelines in the Animal Identification Act:
- Stock may not be sold or disposed of without the owner’s registered mark on it.
- Receiving stock without a mark as required by law may constitute the receiving of suspected stolen stock, which is a criminal offence and can lead to immediate arrest.
- The seller must provide the buyer/receiver with a Section 6 document called a ‘document of identification’.
- No person may receive stock without obtaining a document of identification at the time of delivery – such document must contain all the specified information as noted below, otherwise it will not be considered as a document of identification.
The document of identification must contain the following information and it is the responsibility of the seller to ensure that all the information is in the document:
- Full names and address of the seller and, if sold on behalf of the seller, the full names and address of such authorised person as well.
- Full names and address of the receiver of such stock.
- The date on which the stock was sold or disposed of.
- A certification that the stock is the property of the seller or that the representative of the seller is authorised by the owner to sell or dispose of such stock.
- The breed or kind of stock.
- The number of stock.
- The brand, ear or tattoo mark on the stock.
- If the stock has no mark, then the sex and number of each animal and the colour thereof.
Download the document and make sure that you adhere to the law.
Click on the link https://rpo.co.za/wet-op-veediefstal-stock-theft-act/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR13vmeeC8WBsyi9w04rdVXeqszGp9KHN50BJ_Tl8c5M_GF2cLMKRiRuiqo_aem_AbDBZy3JOgqFR5Iu0eyfgZNfO4P1RpFsQPkS7B9a3AQGMENCY8slMR1Ig9bjXqhP5UG_Nu1rKgQP20CWtvtY_R2v#english to download the document containing both acts.
Publication: July 2024
Section: Pula/Imvula
