Statistics Act, 1999
R 385
Animal Improvement Act, 1998 (Act No. 62 of 1998)Regulations4. Registration of premises as centres |
| (1) | First time application for the registration of premises as a centre shall— |
| (a) | be made on a form that is obtainable from the office of the registrar for this purpose; |
| (b) | be made before genetic material destined for sale in terms of section 14(2) of the Act, is collected on the premises concerned; and |
| (c) | be accompanied by— |
| (i) | the application fee specified in item 2 of Table 1 in the Annexure; and |
| (ii) | two (2) copies of a site plan of the premises concerned; and |
| (iii) | two (2) copies of the detailed ground plans. |
| (2) | An application referred to in subregulation (1) shall lapse within two years after the date of such application if the premises concerned do not comply with the requirements for registration as set out in these regulations. |
| (3) | A site plan referred to in subregulation (1)(c)(ii) shall indicate the location of the facilities specified below in relation to other buildings on the same premises and surrounding properties, and building complexes and places, if any, where other animals are kept: |
| (a) | Office and laboratory complexes. |
| (b) | Stables, pens, collecting stocks and crushes in which animals will be kept and handled in quarantine with a view to their approval to be admitted to the centre. |
| (c) | Stables, pens, crushes, kraals and, if applicable, collecting stocks, as well as any other places where approved as well as other animals, shall be kept and handled at the centre. |
| (d) | Public roads and thoroughfares on and around the premises. |
| (e) | The public entrance to the premises. |
| (4) | A detailed ground plan referred to in subregulation (1)(c)(iii) shall indicate the measurements and descriptions of— |
| (a) | every room that will be used as offices and laboratories including— |
| (i) | the location of rooms for the evaluation, processing, packing, labelling or storage of genetic material; |
| (ii) | the location of rooms for the cleaning and sterilisation of equipment; |
| (iii) | the location of cloakrooms and toilets; and |
| (b) | stables, pens, collecting stocks, crushes and places referred to in subregulation (3); and |
| (c) | kraals and barns. |
| (5) | Premises shall be registered as a centre if it complies with the following requirements: |
| (a) | It shall be fenced in such a manner that animals that are kept therein shall not have physical contact with any other animals. |
| (b) | The premises shall be large enough to provide for the exercising of animals therein. |
| (c) | The quarantine area shall— |
| (i) | be designed and fenced in such a manner that the animals concerned shall not be able to make physical contact with each other nor with any other animal; |
| (ii) | be equipped with the necessary stables, pens, collecting stocks and crushes for the keeping, examination and testing of the animals kept therein; and |
| (iii) | be so situated or screened off that effluent cannot flow from one quarantine stable or pen to another. or from that area over any other portion of the premises. |
| (d) | In the case of a centre for pigs, persons working in the quarantine area shall have no contact with other workers in that centre. |
| (e) | Excess water shall drain rapidly and efficiently from camps, crushes and other pieces where animals are to be kept on the premises. |
| (f) | Separate rooms for the following shall be provided for at a centre: |
| (i) | Administrative activities. |
| (ii) | Apparatus required for the evaluation, processing, packing, labelling and storage of genetic material, as the case may be. |
| (iii) | The cleaning, disinfecting, sterilising and preparation of the equipment used for the collection of genetic material and the activities referred to in subparagraph (ii). |
| (g) | The rooms for the different activities referred to in paragraph (f) shall be effectively screened off from each other if they are in the same building. |
| (h) | The place at a centre where genetic material is sold, or from which they are despatched, shall be so situated that the persons being served there shall have no access to the rooms referred to in paragraph (f)(ii) and (iii). |
| (i) | Floors, walls and ceilings of rooms where genetic materials handled at a centre, shall be finished off in such a manner, and the work- benches therein shall be of such a standard, that they can be cleaned and disinfected effectively. |
| (j) | Floors and walls of stables, pens and collecting stocks at a centre shall be impenetrable and shall be finished off in such a manner that— |
| (i) | they can be cleaned and disinfected effectively; and |
| (ii) | the animals kept therein, will not be injured thereby. |
| (k) | All stables, pens, kraals, camps and other places where animals are kept at a centre shall provide adequate space, ventilation, light and protection for shelter from heat, cold or inclement weather for the animals kept therein. |
| (l) | Measures, that are not detrimental to the animals kept in a centre, shall be taken at a centre to control flies, animal parasites, other insects and rodents. |
| (m) | The facilities at a centre that are used for the collection, evaluation, processing, packing, labelling and storage of genetic material shall be maintained in such a condition that the genetic material handled therewith or therein shall not be contaminated or the quality thereof be detrimentally affected in any way. |
| (6) | The continued registration of premises as a centre shall be subject to the following additional conditions: |
| (a) | The person in charge of the centre shall notify the registrar in writing of— |
| (i) | any proposed structural alteration in respect of the building complexes or other construction on the premises of the centre concerned, as indicated on the site plan and detailed ground plan submitted in terms of subregulation (1); |
| (ii) | any proposed change in the maximum number and kinds of animals kept at the centre concerned; |
| (iii) | any change in respect of the person to whom the certificate of registration has been issued: |
| (iv) | the termination of services at the centre concerned; and |
| (v) | the date on which an animal approved for the collection of semen is removed from that centre, and the reason for such removal. |
| (b) | notice referred to in paragraph (a) shall be submitted to the registrar by registered post within 14 days after the change took place, services have been terminated or an animal has been removed from the centre. |
| (c) | The animals at the centre shall be kept and cared for in accordance with the requirements set out in regulation 15. |
| (d) | The technical activities at the centre in respect of the collection, evaluation, processing, packing, labelling and storage of genetic material shall be carried out in terms of the requirements set out in regulation 16. |
| (e) | Records in a centre shall be kept and preserved in accordance with the requirements set out in regulation 17. |
