Section 12
Power of licensing officer to castr.zte bulls.-( I) If a person who keeps a bull neglects or fails to submit It for inspection or to have it castrated when required to do so under section 7, or sectit n 8, the licensmg officer may direct that the bull shall be by a method and in a manner approved by the Director and marked with a prescribed mark in the presc1 ibed manner, free of charge.
12. Power of licensing officer to castr.zte bulls.-( I) If a person who keeps a bull neglects or fails to submit It for inspection or to have it castrated when required to do so under section 7, or sectit n 8, the licensmg officer may direct that the bull shall be by a method and in a manner approved by the Director and marked with a prescribed mark in the presc1 ibed manner, free of charge.
(2) (a) If 1t 1s not known in whose ownership, possessiOn or custody a bull is for the time being and the fact cannot be ascertained after an inquiry in the prescribed manner, the licensmg officer may seize the bull or cause to be se·zed, and if he is of opimon that the bull has attamed the prescrib,·d age and IS unsUitable for breedmg purposes on an) of the grounds specified m sub-section (I) of section 5, may direct that the bull shall be castrated b} a method and m a manner approved by the Director and marked with a prescribed mark m the prescribed manner, free of charge.
(b) Every bull seized under clause (a) shall, after it has been castrated and marked as aforesaid where necessary, be sold by public auction or sent to a piru'rapole or mfirmary recognised by the Government in this behalf.
(c) In case the owner of any bull seized under clause (a) appears before the licensing officer withm such time as ina; be prescribed in this behalf and proves to the satisfaction of such officer that the bull is owned by him-
(i) m case the bull has been sold by public auction, the proceeds of such sale shall be pa1d to the owner after deductmg therefrom the c(lsts, charge, and expenses incurred for the maintenance and sale of the bull; and
(ii) in any other case, the bull shall be delivered to the owner on payment of the costs, charges and expenses incurred for Its mamtenance.
(d) The costs, charges and expenses referred to in sub-clau<;e (i) and (ii) of clause (c) shall be determmed in the pre;cnbed manner.
I '1. Power of ltcensmg officer etc . .. to znspect or mark bulls and enter premises.-For the purposes of this Act, a licensing officer or any officer or persan authonsed by him in this behalf shall have power at all reasonable times-
. (a) to inspect any bull;
(b) to make any bull with a prescribed mark in the prescribed manner; and
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(c) subject to such cond1tions and re!>tnctions, if any, as may be prescribed, to enter any premises or other place where he has reason. to believe that a bull is kept.