• Animal Diseases Act, 1984 (Act No. 35 of 1984)
    • Notice No. 647 of 1984
    • Act
    • 1. Definitions
    • 2. Exercising of powers and carrying out of duties by director
    • 3. Authorized person
    • 4. Written authority in respect of officers and authorized persons
    • 5. Quarantine stations
    • 6. Importation of certain controlled animals or things
    • 7. [Repealed]
    • 8. Removal and further detention of imported animals or things
    • 9. Control measures
    • 10. Animal health schemes
    • 11. Duties of owners and managers regarding health of animals
    • 12. Disposal of straying animals
    • 13. Rendering of certain services by director
    • 14. Assumption of control over land by director
    • 15. Orders
    • 16. Powers of entry and inspection of director
    • 17. Seizures by director
    • 18. Fences
    • 19. Compensation
    • 20. Limitations on investigations, experiments and research with, and manufacture and evaluation of, certain products
    • 21. General provisions regarding applications, claims and requests
    • 22. Determination and payment of fees and other amounts
    • 23. Objections against decisions of and steps taken by director and certain other persons and bodies
    • 24. Keeping and production of documents
    • 25. Secrecy
    • 26. Limitation on liability of South African Transport Services and livestock auctioneers
    • 27. Limitation of liability
    • 28. Application of Act in respect of State
    • 29. Defects in form
    • 30. Defrayal of expenses
    • 31. Regulations
    • 32. Offences and penalties
    • 33. Presumptions and proof
    • 34. Vicarious liability
    • 35. Repeal, savings and transitional provisions
    • 36. Short title and commencement
    • Schedule
      • Acts Repealed
  • Regulations
    • Notice No. R. 2026 of 1986
    • 1. Definitions
    • 2. Notification that applications may be made
    • 3. Applications for designation as authorised persons
    • 4. Requests to render services
    • 5. Requests for revision
    • 6. Reimbursement for services by authorised persons
    • 7. Fees payable for accommodation
    • 8. Applications for import permits
    • 9. Detention of controlled animals and things
    • 10. Treatment of animals against external parasites
    • 11. Application of controlled veterinary acts
    • 12. Reporting of incidence of controlled animal diseases
    • 12A. Reporting of incidence of notifiable animal diseases
    • 12B. Registration for diagnostic testing for controlled and notifiable animal diseases
    • 13. Isolation of controlled animals or things
    • 14. Prohibition of access to certain places
    • 15. Disinfection of certain places and things
    • 16. Sampling by responsible persons
    • 17. Records in relation to controlled animals
    • 18. Proof of performance of controlled veterinary acts
    • 19. Notification and isolation of certain animals
    • 20. Restrictions on movement
    • 20A. Keeping of buffalo
    • 20B. Keeping of Equines and Zebra in the African Horse sickness controlled area
    • 20B. Keeping of Ostriches
    • 21. Restrictions on hunting, shooting, catching and driving away of game
    • 22. Restrictions on the slaughtering of certain animals
    • 23. Restrictions on actions with controlled animals and things
    • 24. Restrictions on the disposal of certain things
    • 25. Dipping tanks, spray races and crushes
    • 26. Notification of control measures
    • 26A. Application of controlled veterinary acts on animal diseases other than controlled animal diseases
    • 27. Fees for services rendered
    • 28. Serving of documents
    • 29. Marking of controlled animals and things
    • 30. Compensation
    • 31. Lodging of applications, claims and requests
    • 32. Payment of fees
    • 33. Objections against decisions of or steps taken by the director
    • 34. Commencement
    • Annexures
      • Annexure 1 : Things included in Definitions of "Infectious Thing" or "Contaminated Thing" in the Act
      • Annexure 2 : Areas to and from which controlled animals or things may be moved or removed on authority of a permit only
      • Annexure 3 : Notifiable Animal Diseases
      • [Deleted] Annexure 4 : The African Horse Sickness Controlled Area of the Western Cape is divided into the following Three Zones for control purposes
    • Tables
      • Table 1 : Controlled areas relating to particular controlled animal diseases
      • Table 2 : Control measures relating to controlled animal diseases
      • Table 3 : Marks to be made on certain controlled animals
  • Notices
    • Control Measures relating to Foot and Mouth Disease in Certain Areas
      • Control Measures relating to Foot and Mouth Disease in Certain Areas
        • Notice No. 67 of 2019
        • 1. Definitions
        • 2. Objective of control measure
        • 3. Prohibition on the movement of animals and products
      • [Repealed] Control Measures Relating to Foot and Mouth Disease in Certain Areas
        • Notice No. 176 of 2020
      • [Repealed] Control Measures relating to Foot and Mouth Disease in Certain Areas
        • Notice No. R. 569 of 2021
        • 1. Definitions
        • 2. Objective of control measure
        • 3. Prohibition on the movement of animals, animal products and genetic material except on authority of a permit
      • [Repealed] Control Measures relating to Foot and Mouth Disease in Certain Areas
        • Notice No. 827 of 2021
        • 1. Definitions
        • 2. Objective of control measure
        • 3. Prohibition on the movement of animals, animal products and genetic material except on authority of a permit
      • [Repealed] Control Measures relating to Foot and Mouth Disease in Certain Areas
        • Notice No. 2075 of 2022
        • 1. Definitions
        • 2. Objective of control measure
        • 3. Prohibition on the movement of animals, animal products and genetic material except on authority of a permit
      • [Repealed] Control Measures relating to Foot and Mouth Disease
        • Notice No. 2391 of 2022
        • 1. Definitions
        • 2. Objective of control measure
        • 3. Prohibition on the movement of live cattle
        • 4. Exemption from cattle movement ban for direct slaughter
        • 5. Slaughter for own consumption
      • [Repealed] Control Measures relating to Foot and Mouth Disease
        • Notice No. R. 2465 of 2022
        • 1. Definitions
        • 2. Objective of control measure
        • 3. Prohibition on the movement of live cattle, sheep and goats in certain areas
        • 4. Cattle, sheep and goats movement for direct slaughter
        • 5. Slaughter for own consumption
        • 6. Restriction on movement of animals, animal products and genetic material
        • The Kwa Zulu Natal Province Disease Management Area
        • The Limpopo Province Disease Management Area
        • The Free State Province Disease Management Area
      • [Repealed] Control Measures relating to Foot and Mouth Disease
        • Notice No. 2606 of 2022
        • 1. Definitions
        • 2. Objective of control measure
        • 3. Restriction on the movement of live cattle, sheep and goats in certain areas
        • 4. Document requirements for movement of cattle, sheep and goats in the whole country
        • The Kwa Zulu Natal Province Disease Management Area
        • The Limpopo Province Disease Management Area
      • Control Measures relating to Foot and Mouth Disease
        • Notice No. 5064 of 2024
        • 1. Definitions
        • 2. Objective of control measure
        • 3. Restriction on the movement of live cattle, sheep and goats in certain areas
        • 4. Prohibition on the movement of animals, animal products and genetic material except on  authority of a permit in certain areas
        • 5. Document requirements for movement of cattle, sheep and goats in the whole country
        • The Eastern Cape Province Disease Management Area
        • The Kwa Zulu Natal Province Disease Management Area
        • The Limpopo Province Disease Management Area
  • Proclamation
    • Commencement of the Act
      • Notice No. R. 174 of 1986