The Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act, 1976
Maharashtra Act No. IX of 1977
(This Act Received the assent of the President on the 16th day of February 1977; assent was first published in the Maharashtra Government Gazette on the 1st day of March 1977).
An Act to provide for the prohibition of slaughter 1.[and preservation of cows, bulls and bullocks useful for milch, breeding, draught or agricultural purposes and for restriction on slaughter for the preservation of certain other animals suitable for the said purposes].
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the prohibition of slaughter 2.[and preservation of cows, bulls and bullocks useful for milch, breeding, draught or agricultural purposes and for restriction on slaughter for the preservation of certain other animals suitable for the said purposes] and to provide for matter connected therewith; It is hereby enacted in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :
Section 1 :
Short title, extent, commencement and application :
(1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act, 1976.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Maharashtra.
(3) It shall come into force on such 3.()date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
(4) It shall apply to cows,4.[bulls or bullocks] and to scheduled animals.
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*. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Maharashtra Government Gazette, 1976, Part V, Extraordinary, dated 6th December 1976, Page 679.
1. Substituted for the portion beginning with the words "of cows" and ending with the words "agricultural purposes", by Mah. 5 of 2015, section 2.
2. Substituted for the portion beginning with the words "of cows" and ending with the words "agricultural purposes", by Mah. 5 of 2015, section 3.
3. 15th day of April 1978, vide G. N., A and C.D., No. SIT-1076/28233/3-ADF, dated the 13th April 1978.
4. Inserted by Mah. 5 of 2015, section 4.
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