BRANDING, SALE, AND TRANSFER OF CATTLE

(i) for prohibiting the sale or transfer of cattle except upon a voucher as near as is material in the form A in the Schedule, certified by an officer appointed for the purpose ;

(ii) for filling the duplicate of vouchers issued by any officer appointed under the provisions of this Ordinance;

(iii) for prohibiting the removal of cattle for agricultural purposes, or for tending, milking, or grazing, or for use in a tavalam, except upon a permit in the prescribed form ;

(iv) for the issue of vouchers in the form A in the Schedule, and for the custody of registers of cattle branded;

(v) for prohibiting the alteration of or addition to, defacement, or destruction of any voucher or permit;

(vi) for prohibiting the possession by any person of any voucher or permit for the removal of cattle, unless such person have in his possession a head of cattle corresponding to such voucher or certificate of removal;

(vii) for prescribing the circumstances under which a voucher or permit may be dispensed with ;

(viii) for prescribing the additional facts to be inserted in a permit when a head of cattle is removed to be tended for share ;

(ix) for prescribing the circumstances under which an owner of cattle not holding a voucher may obtain a voucher after proof of title ;

(x) for the fixing, by the prescribed authority and in the prescribed manner, of the place or places in each branding district where cattle of such a district shall be brought to be branded ;

(xi) for the fixing, by the prescribed authority and in the prescribed manner, of the days in each quarter of the year in which cattle may be branded in each branding district;

(xii) for prohibiting the branding of cattle in any branding district except at the place or places and on the days fixed for the branding of cattle in such district;

(xiii) for requiring notice of such places and dates being given in such district;

(xiv) for compelling owners of cattle within such district to produce all unbranded cattle which by the regulations are required to be branded, and which are above the age of eighteen months, at the places and on the dates fixed for the branding of cattle ;

(xv) for requiring the presence of each village headman within a branding district at the place fixed for the branding of the cattle of his village on each of the days fixed for
branding ;

(xvi) for prohibiting the branding of cattle from any village except in the presence of the headman of such village ;

(xvii) for prohibiting the branding of cattle owned by the headman of any village except in the presence of a headman of an adjoining village ;

(xviii) for directing the officer authorized to brand cattle to satisfy himself before branding a calf that such calf is the produce of the dam produced;

(xix) for compelling each branding officer to keep a register as near as is material in the form B in the Schedule hereto of all cattle branded by him, and to insert in such register a description of each animal branded;

(xx) for prohibiting the altering, defacing, or adding to of any brand, or the rebranding of any head of cattle, without the special permission in writing of the President of the Rural Court or the Magistrate having jurisdiction over the place where the animal is kept;

(xxi) for prescribing the circumstances under which branding by caste marks and for sickness may be effected, and for prohibiting branding merely for ornamental purposes ;

(xxii) for authorizing and requiring the seizure by the police and headmen, and the production before the President of the Rural Court, or if there is no Rural Court before the Magistrate, of all stray cattle, cattle not branded in conformity with the regulations, cattle for which proper vouchers or permits for removal cannot be produced, or cattle bearing altered or defaced brands, and for authorizing the sale of such cattle when there is no claimant, or when the President of the Rural Court or Magistrate is not satisfied that they are the lawful property of the claimant;

(xxiii) for the transmission of the duplicates of cattle
vouchers and permits for removal, and of the registers of cattle branded, to the Government Agent of the administrative district in which the vouchers, permits for removal, or registers were written;

(xxiv) for prohibiting the possession by any unauthorized person of brands similar to those used for communal branding;

(xxv) for fixing the fees to be paid for the branding of cattle, the issue of vouchers for the registering of cattle, and the issue of a copy of an entry in a branding register ;

(xxvi) for the appointment of officers to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance ; and

(xxvii) for prescribing the area within which any regulation made under this Ordinance shall be in force ;