Animal act as per PCI

objective, definition, IAEC, CPCSEA guidelines for breeding & stocking of animals, transfer of acquisition of animals for expt., power to suspect or revoke registration, offences & penalties.

1. The Prevention of Cruelty To Animals Act, 1960 Prepared by: Ms. Chevale S. L. Assistant professor. Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry VDF School of Pharmacy Latur . Maharashtra, India.

2. Contents Introduction. Objectives. Definitions. Institutional animal ethics committee. CPCSEA guidelines for Breeding & stocking of animals. Performance of experiments. Transfer & acquisition of animals for experiment, Records. Powers to suspend or revoke registration Offences & penalties.

3. Introduction: In India different rules in different parts to prevent unnecessary cruelty to animals. Government of India appointed a committee to study matters relating to infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering on animals. Recommendations of this committee had been considered for passing this act.

4. Objective: Main objective of this act is to prevent infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering on animals as well as to prevent cruelty to animals.

5. Definitions: Animals: This term include any living creature except human being. P hooka or Doom Dev: It includes a process in which any substance or air is introduced into the female organ of a milch animal with the intension of drawing of any secretion of milk. Cruelty: It is not define under this act but it roughly means the infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering.

6. Performance of experiments: In conducting expt. on animals, regard shall be had to the following conditions: When there is reason to believe that an animal is suffering abnormal or severe pain at any stage of a continuing expt. it shall be painlessly destroyed at that stage without proceeding with the expt. The expt. shall not be performed for the purpose of attaining or retaining manual skill except in schools, colleges and recognised training institutions; Experiments shall not be performed by way of an illustration; Expt. shall not be performed as a public demonstration; The substance known to cause paralysing shall not be used or administered for the purpose of any expt. except in conjunction with anaesthetic of sufficient depth to produce loss of consciousness;

7. Performance of experiments: In conducting expt. on animals, regard shall be had to the following conditions: No experiment the result of which is already conclusively known, shall be repeated without previous justification; There shall not be applied to the eye of an animal by way of experiment any chemical substance for the purpose of absorption through the conjunctival membrane or through the cornea calculated to only give pain. Dogs held for experimental purposes shall not be debarked. Expt. performed in any institution, the responsibility is placed on the person in charge of the institution and in cases where experiments are performed outside an institution by an individual qualified in that behalf, the-experiments, are performed on his responsibility.

8. Offences & penalties: Treating animals cruelly is punishable with fine NLT Rs. 10/- which may extend to Rs. 50/- on first conviction On subsequent conviction with in three year of previous offence, it is punishable with fine NLT Rs. 25/- which may extend to Rs. 100/- or imprisonment of three months or with both. Performing operation like Phooka or any other operation to improve lactation which injurious to health of animal is punishable with fine up to Rs. 1000/- or imprisonment up to 2 year or with both. Animal may be forfeited by the government. Contravention of any order of committee or breach of law imposed by committee is punishable with fine up to Rs. 200/-.

9. References: The Prevention of Cruelty To Animals Act, 1960. Ministry of environment forest & climate c h a g ne Animal Welfare Division, Committee For T h e Purpose of Control & Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA).