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Repeal. * * * * STATEMENTS OF OBJECTS AND REASONS I Act 35 of 1964.—The laws regulating preservation of animals in force in the State of Mysore are, the Mysore Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1948, in force in the Mysore Area, and the Bombay Animal Preservation Act, 1954, in force in the Bombay Area. Under section 2 of the Mysore Act, “cow” is defined to include bull, bullock, buffalo, and calf, and section 3 of the Act imposes a ban on the slaughter of cows except when certified by a qualified veterinarian to be affected with rabis. In view of the decision of the Supreme Court in “Mohammed Hanif Quareshi vs. the State of Bihar” and of the decision of the Mysore High Court in “Quareshi and others vs. the State of Mysore”, it is considered necessary to have a uniform law for the whole State in conformity with those decisions. Hence this Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary), Part IV-2A dated 20th November 1963 as No. 144 at page. 9.) 2 II Amending Act 24 of 1966.—Section 16 of the Mysore Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Preservation Act, 1964, lays down that the Act shall not apply to any cow or animal operated upon for vaccine lymph, serum or for any experimental or research purpose, or any cow or animal, slaughter of which is certified by a Veterinary Officer to be necessary in the interest of the public health, or which is suffering from any disease which is certified by a Veterinary Officer as being contagious and dangerous to other animals. The Government of India have stated that the regulations for the Army contain provisions for the destruction of Army cattle when they have been certified by a Veterinary Officer as suffering from an incurable disease or injury. They have requested that in order to enable destruction of such animals suitable provision may be made in the Mysore Act. Hence this Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A, dated 21st July 1966 as No. 122 at page. 3.) III Amending Act 26 of 1975.—Under clause (c) of section 16 of the Act a cow or animal belonging to the Central Government in the Ministry of Defence, slaughter of which is certified by a Veterinary Officer of the Indian Army to be necessary on the ground that it is suffering from incurable disease or injury is exempt from the provisions of the Act. It is considered that similar exemption should also be made applicable in the case of slaughter of a cow or animal certified by a Veterinary Officer authorised by State Government as one suffering from an incurable disease or injury. Hence this Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A, dated 26th February 1973 as No. 178 at page. 3.) * * * * 3 1[KARNATAKA]1 ACT No. 35 OF 1964 (First published in the 1[Karnataka Gazette]1 on the Twenty-seventh day of August, 1964.) THE 1[KARNATAKA]1 PREVENTION OF COW SLAUGHTER AND CATTLE PRESERVATION ACT, 1964. (Received the assent of the President on the Fourteenth day of August, 1964.) (As amended by Karnataka Acts 24 of 1966 , 26 of 1975) An Act to provide for the prevention of slaughter of cows, calves of cows and calves of she-buffaloes and for the preservation of other cattle in the State. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the prevention of slaughter of cows, calves of cows and calves of she-buffaloes and for the preservation of other cattle in the State; BE it enacted by the 1[Karnataka State]1 Legislature in the Fifteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—