Tanzania
Natural Resources Act
Natural Resources (Destocking) (Arusha Region) Rules, 1982
Government Notice 114 of 1982
- Published in Tanzania Government Gazette
- Commenced on 20 September 1982
- [This is the version of this document at 31 July 2002.]
- [Note: This legislation has been thoroughly revised and consolidated under the supervision of the Attorney General's Office, in compliance with the Laws Revision Act No. 7 of 1994, the Revised Laws and Annual Revision Act (Chapter 356 (R.L.)), and the Interpretation of Laws and General Clauses Act No. 30 of 1972. This version is up-to-date as at 31st July 2002.]
1. Citation
These Rules may be cited as the Natural Resources (Destocking) (Arusha Region) Rules.2. Application
These Rules shall apply in respect of the whole of the area of the Arusha Region.3. Interpretation
In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—"District" means any district within the area of the Arusha Region;"District Commissioner" means the person holding the office or performing the functions of the office of District Commissioner in any district within the Arusha Region;"livestock" means cattle, donkeys, goats or sheep;"livestock unit" means one head of cattle, or one donkey, or two calves not yet weaned, or five head of either goats or sheep, or goats and sheep together;"local government authority" means the District Development Council of any District or the village council of a village within the District;"Regional Commissioner" means the person holding the office or performing the functions of the office of Regional Commissioner for the Arusha Region;"stock owner" means the owner or person having the custody of any livestock.4. Authorisation of powers or duties
5. Powers of Regional Commissioner
6. Order regarding removal or disposal of stock
7. Notification in writing by Regional Commissioner
The Regional Commissioner shall in every year notify in writing to the local government authority of the area at which livestock are to be removed in such year from such area for disposal by sale or in any other way under the provisions of paragraph (a) of subrule (1) of Rule 5.8. Notification in writing by District Commissioner
A District Commissioner shall, on behalf of the Regional Commissioner, in every year notify in writing to the local government authority within the District under his jurisdiction in which destocking, limitation of stock or closure to livestock immigration is being enforced, the scale or method upon or by means of which the destocking, limitation or closure to livestock immigration is to be carried out in that year.9. Chief executive officer may notify each stock owner
The chief executive officer of a local government authority, or other person duly empowered by him in that behalf, on receiving the notification under Rule 7 or 8, shall notify each stock owner in his area of—10. Appointment of date for dispopsal of stock
11. Selection and disposal of livestock
The selection and disposal of livestock at any assembly place shall be carried out under the supervision of the District Commissioner or of officers authorised by him for the purpose.12. Selection for sale
At the assembly place each stock owner or agent shall select from his livestock for sale, if he has not already done so, that number of livestock units by which he is required to reduce his livestock and shall drive his selected livestock into an enclosure at the assembly place.13. Failure of owner or agent to comply with order
If the stock owner or agent fails or refuses to select in a satisfactory manner the appropriate number of livestock units, or to drive his selected livestock into the enclosure, the number of livestock by which he is required to reduce his livestock may be selected by an authorised officer and shall be driven upon the order of that officer into the enclosure.14. Branding of livestock
15. Selected livestock to be taken into custody
The selected livestock shall, after branding and if it is so directed by an authorised officer, be taken into the custody of the local government authority until they are sold at a market.16. Owner to be notified
When the livestock of each stock owner have been selected, the stock owner shall be notified by an authorised officer of the market at which the livestock shall be sold and the date of the sale.17. Removal of the branded livestock
After branding of the livestock has been completed, the stock owner or agent may, with the consent of an authorised officer, remove the branded livestock and it shall be the duty of the stock owner or agent to bring or cause to be brought that livestock to the said market for sale upon the date notified.18. Sale to be conducted by public auction
The sale of livestock shall be conducted by public auction by the marketing staff of a District Development Director's Office; except that a Veterinary Officer or any other officer authorised by him in that behalf may at any market, if he is satisfied that the offers made by buyers at auctions are inadequate, fix minimum prices for each class of livestock by verbal order.19. Failure or refusal of stock owner or headsman to comply with provisions of rule 16
20. Purchaser to brand livestock
21. Purchaser to remove livestock
A purchaser shall, unless he is authorised otherwise by an authorised officer, remove from the livestock so purchased by him at any auction from the area in which they were purchased within twenty days of purchase.22. Offence to conceal livestock
It shall be an offence under these Rules for any owner, or any herdsman, servant or agent of any stock owner or person, to conceal livestock or knowingly to give false information regarding the ownership or numbers of livestock to any authorised officer, Veterinary Officer or any local government authority, or to the servants or agents of any such officer or authority.23. Offences
Any person who commits any offence under any of these Rules is liable upon conviction to a fine not exceeding three thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both that fine and imprisonment.24. Revocation
[Revokes the Destocking (Mbulu District) Rules 1.]History of this document
31 July 2002 this version
Consolidation
20 September 1982
Commenced