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

14. Restriction on sale or importation of genetic material

 

(1) No person shall sell genetic material collected in the Republic or genetic material imported into the Republic unless such genetic material is accompanied by the prescribed written warranty.

 

(2) No person referred to in subsection (1) shall advertise that the progeny to be begotten from the use of such genetic material shall be recorded or registered in terms of any breed standards, unless the animal breeders’ society concerned with animals to which the to be begotten progeny concerned belongs, grants prior approval in writing that such genetic material has been collected from a stud book animal of the specific breed and that such to be begotten progeny may be eligible for recording or registration in the herd book kept by the registering authority for that particular kind of animal or breed of such kind of animal.