Control of Bulls For Breeding Act, 1985
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Prosecution of offences. |
10.—(1) Every offence under this Act may be prosecuted by the Minister. | |
(2) For the purposes of a prosecution for a contravention of section 2 of this Act, a bull shall be deemed to be in the possession of the following persons, that is to say, a person— | ||
(a) who is the owner of the bull; | ||
(b) to whom the bull has been lent, hired or leased; | ||
(c) who is the owner of, or the person having the charge or management of, the lands in which the bull is kept and who does not establish that the bull was on the land without his knowledge or consent. | ||
(3) In a prosecution for an offence under this Act, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that an entire male of the bovine species in respect of which a prosecution is brought is a bull to which this Act applies. | ||
(4) In a prosecution for an offence under this Act, a document issued by an authorised officer of an approved organisation attesting that a bull is not entered or is not eligible to be entered in a herd book of that breed shall, without proof of the signature of the person purporting to sign the document or that that person was the proper person so to sign, be evidence of the matters attested in the document, until the contrary is shown. |