Live Stock Breeding Act, 1925

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Transfer of licences and permits.

9.—(1) Save in the manner and to the extent authorised by this section licences and permits granted under this Act shall not be transferable.

(2) Where the right to the possession of a bull in respect of which a licence or permit granted under this Act is in force passes from the holder of the licence or permit to another person (in this section called the transferee) either by a transfer or devolution of the property in the bull or by a loan, hire, or lease of the bull for a period exceeding one month, or by the cesser or surrender of any such loan, hiring, or lease, the Minister may, on the application of the transferee and on notice to the holder of the licence or permit or his personal representative and on compliance with the prescribed conditions, transfer the licence or permit in the prescribed manner to the transferee.

(3) In any such case as is mentioned in the foregoing sub-section no offence under this Act shall be deemed to be committed by reason only of the transferee keeping or having possession of the bull during the period between his applying for a transfer of the licence or permit and his receipt of the decision of the Minister on such application and for the purposes of this sub-section the decision of the Minister, if communicated to the transferee by post, shall be deemed to be received by him at the time when the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of the post.

(4) On the death of the holder of a licence or permit, his personal representative may retain possession of the bull to which the licence or permit relates for a period not exceeding three months from the death of the holder or until the sooner determination of the licence or permit without obtaining a transfer to himself of the licence or permit and such personal representative shall during such period or until such determination (as the case may be) be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be the holder of such licence or permit.