Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
Interpretation
“abattoir” means any premises for the slaughtering of any animal, the meat whereof is intended for sale or for public consumption, and includes any place where animals are confined for inspection by the State Veterinary Authority pending slaughter;
“aircraft” includes any kind of craft which may be used for the conveyance of animals or fish or birds or their products by air;
“animal” includes cattle, buffalo, selembu, sheep, goat, horse, swine, dog, cat and any four-footed beast kept in captivity or under control, of any age or sex; and also includes a bird and livestock;
“animal product” means any product and by-products derived from animals, carcasses, and includes egg, milk, semen and embryo;
“animal quarantine station” means a quarantine station established under section 98;
“authorized person” means any person authorized, generally or specially by the State Veterinary Authority to discharge any of the duties or functions under this Ordinance, and includes any person to whom the said Authority has delegated functions or duties under section 6;
“bird” includes chicken, duck, geese, turkey, ostrich, quail, guinea fowl, pigeon and any other avian species of any age or sex and any products of a bird;
“building” includes any house, hut, barn, shed, stable or enclosure, whether roofed or not, used for sheltering or confining any animal or fish or bird and any pen, cage, pond, tank or any structure connected with the foregoing;
“carcass” means the dead body of an animal or fish or bird, and includes any part thereof and the meat, bones (whether whole, broken or ground), offal, hide, skin, wool, hair, feathers, hoof, horns or other part of an animal or fish or bird, separately or otherwise, or any portion thereof;
“cat” means any domesticated cat or wild cat of any breed or sex, belonging to the feline family;
“cattle” means bull, cow, oxen, heifer, calf, and includes buffalo of any age or sex;
“contact” means any animal or fish, bird or its products which has by contact direct or indirect with a diseased animal or fish, bird or its products been exposed to the risk of contracting a disease, or contamination with any substance which is injurious to health;
“contamination” means the presence of any substance or foreign matter of a physical, chemical or biological nature, which is poisonous or harmful to animals, has impact on animal health, reduces the quality of animal or fish products, and causes animal or fish products to be unfit for human consumption;
“culture” means any live organisms in any form derived from animals or fish maintained in any kind of media or containers;
“dog” means any domesticated dog or wild dog of any breed or sex, belonging to the canine family;
“examine”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes the carrying out of any tests and post-mortem examination, after exhumation of the carcass (if necessary);
“export” means to take or cause to be taken out of the State of Sarawak by whatever means, any animal, fish or bird or their products or feeds or part thereof;
“feed” means any organic or mineral substances or mixtures of such substances used for the feeding of animal or fish, and includes fishmeal;
“fish” means any aquatic animal from cultivated, reared or produced in riverine waters, and includes all species of finfish, crustacea, mollusca, aquatic mammals, or their eggs, spawn, fry, fingerling, spat or young;
“fishmeal” means products from aquatic animals (fish, mollusc, crustaceans) intended for use in feeding animal or fish or for manufacturing of feed;
“Government” means the Government of the State of
Sarawak;
“hormone” means a chemical substance derived from an endocrine gland or through synthetic processing that has a specific effect on tissues;
“horse” includes any mare, stallion, gelding, pony, foal, colt, filly, ass or mule;
import” means the bringing into the State of Sarawak by whatever means, any animal, fish or bird or their products or feeds or part thereof either for use, consumption or application in the State or for the purpose of transferring or transporting the same to another State or country;
“infected” means infected with any disease;
“licence” includes a permit or any authorization issued or given pursuant to any authority conferred by this Ordinance;
“litter” means any substance used for bedding or otherwise for or about animals or birds;
“livestock” means any class of livestock which includes pig, cattle, buffalo, goat, sheep, horse, pony, deer, rabbit, poultry, duck, quail, turkey, ostrich, pigeon, guinea fowl, crocodile, snake and any other animals, birds, reptiles and amphibians which are domesticated for human consumption;
“livestock farm” means any place, premises or establishment used for the production, breeding, keeping, rearing or treatment of livestock;
“manufacture” means the production or mixing of animal, fish or bird or their products or feeds, veterinary biologics and cultures of animal, fish or birds origin;
“mark” means any form of branding, stamping or printing used as means of identification or certification;
“master” means the captain of any ship or aircraft, and includes any person for the time being in charge of any ship
(other than a pilot) or aircraft;.
“meat inspector” means any person authorized by the State
Veterinary Authority for examination, testing, inspection and certification of meat for human consumption;
“Minister” means the Minister in the Government having responsibilities for agriculture and food industries;
“officer of customs” has the same meaning as assigned to it in the Customs Act 1967 [Act 235];
“Ordinance” includes any rules made thereunder;
“owner”—
(a)
in relation to land, includes the registered proprietor thereof and any person in occupation of land by virtue of any licence issued or rights recognized under the
Land Code [Cap. 81 (1958 Ed.)]; and
(b)
in relation to animal or fish, means any person who owns the animal or fish or is responsible for the management, care, breeding or keeping of the animal or fish;
“premises” means messuages, buildings, holdings, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, and includes any place, structure, tent, stall or mobile vehicle, vessel or any part thereof whether open or enclosed, permanent or temporary and whether public or private, occupied or unoccupied or used for any purpose whatsoever;
“quarantine” means the compulsory detention in isolation of any animal or fish, bird or thing for specific purpose related to animal or fish or bird;
“quarantine station” means any building or place, designated by the State Veterinary Authority under section 98(1), where quarantine is carried out, and includes an examination station;
“riverine waters” means the waters of any rivers, lakes, streams, ponds and such other waters in Malaysia other than maritime waters, whether natural or manmade, privately owned or otherwise;
“selembu” means the animal of any age or sex which is the hybrid of any generation of Bos gaurus hubbakki and Bos indicus or Bos taurus or Bos indicus and Bos indicus crossbreeds;
“ship” includes every description of vessel or craft, however propelled, which may be used in navigation by water;
“State Veterinary Authority” means the authority appointed under section 3;
“the State” means the State of Sarawak;
“veterinary” means all matters relating to animal or fish health, animal or fish welfare, animal or fish production and veterinary public health;
“veterinary biologics” means vaccine, sera, plasma, antigen, toxoids, and any substance or mixture of substances live, killed or attenuated derived from animals or fish, birds, parasites or micro-organisms or parts thereof manufactured, sold or presented for use for any purpose, and includes—
(a)
the diagnosis, treatment, control or prevention of a disease, disorder, abnormal physical state in animals or fish or birds;
(b)
restoring, correcting or modifying organic functions in animals or fish or birds;
“veterinary centre” means any place established by the State
Veterinary Authority for the care and treatment of animals or fish and the general provision of veterinary services for the public;
“veterinary drug” means any remedial or therapeutic substance which is manufactured, imported, or advertised for sale, or is sold for the purposes of curing, diagnosing, treating, controlling, or preventing any disease or ailment in animals or fish and birds or destroying or preventing parasites on or in animals or fish or maintaining or improving the health, productivity, condition or appearance of any animal or fish or bird or for the capturing or immobility of animals or fish or birds and carries the label for veterinary or animal or fish use only or any such label which restricts its use for animal or fish and bird use only, including veterinary biologics and hormones;
“veterinary officer” means any veterinary officer in the service of the Government, and includes a veterinary surgeon authorized by the State Veterinary Authority to exercise any of the powers or duties conferred on the State Veterinary Authority under this Ordinance;
“veterinary public health” means a component of public health relating to the application of veterinary skills, knowledge and resources for the protection of human health;
“veterinary surgeon” means a person with the qualifications stipulated in Parts I and II of the Second Schedule to the
Veterinary Surgeons Act 1974 [Act 147], and registered under that Act for the practice of veterinary medicine in Malaysia;
“waste” in relation to animals, means the excreta, faeces, urine, carcass or body parts of animals, and includes wasted feeds, water used for the washing, bathing or cleansing of animal, or water or any liquid used for the flushing and cleansing of any livestock farm;
“zoonotic disease” means any disease communicable from animals to human.