Law of the People's Republic of China on Animal Epidemic Prevention (1997)
Law of the People's Republic of China on Animal Epidemic Prevention (1997)
Law of the People's Republic of China on Animal Epidemic Prevention (1997)
Order of the President [1997] No. 87
July 3, 1997
(Adopted at the 26th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress on July 3, 1997, promulgated by Order of the President [1997] No.87 on July 3, 1997)
Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Prevention of Animal Epidemics
Chapter III Control and Elimination of Animal Epidemics
Chapter IV Quarantine of Animal and Animal Products
Chapter V Supervision over Animal Epidemic Prevention
Chapter VI Legal Responsibility
Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted with a view to strengthening administration of animal epidemic prevention, preventing, controlling and eliminating animal epidemics, promoting development of the breeding industry and protecting human health.
Article 2 This Law is applicable to all activities conducted to prevent animal epidemics within the territory of the People's Republic of China.
The quarantine of entry and exit animals and animal products shall be governed by the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quarantine of Importing and Exporting Animals and Plants.
Article 3 "Animals" as used in this Law refer to livestock and poultry as well as other animals that are artificially raised or are legally captured.
"Animal products" as used in this Law refer to animals' rawhides, raw hair, semen, embryos, fertilized eggs as well as unprocessed trunks, fat, viscera, blood, wool, bones, horns, heads and hoofs.
"Animal epidemics" as used in this Law refer to infectious animal diseases and parasitic animal diseases.
"Animal epidemic prevention" as used in this law comprises the prevention, control and elimination of animal epidemics as well as the quarantine of animals and animal products.
Article 4 Slaughtering of animals shall be subject to quarantine inspection of the trunks, heads, hoofs and viscera of animals conducted and supervised in accordance with this Law. The hygienic inspection of and supervision over the foods made of the slaughtered animals that are quarantined as up to standards shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Food Hygiene Law of the People's Republic of China.
Article 5 The State practises the principle of putting prevention first with regard to animal epidemics.
Article 6 The administrative department for animal husbandry and veterinary under the State Council shall be in charge of animal epidemic prevention in the whole country.
The administrative departments for animal husbandry and veterinary under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall be in charge of animal epidemic prevention in their respective administrative regions.
The institutions for supervision over animal epidemic prevention under the people's governments at or above the county level shall effect animal epidemic prevention and exercise supervision over it.
The institutions for supervision over animal epidemic prevention in the army shall be in charge of the epidemic prevention among the animals in active service and the animals raised by the army for its own use.
Article 7 The people's governments at various levels shall strengthen their leadership over animal epidemic prevention.
Article 8 The State encourages and supports scientific research in animal epidemic prevention, promotes the wide use of advanced scientific research findings, disseminates scientific knowledge about animal epidemic prevention, and improves work in this field.
Article 9 The people's governments or the administrative departments for animal husbandry and veterinary shall award the units and individuals that have achieved successes or made contributions in animal epidemic prevention and in scientific research in this field of endeavour.
Chapter II Prevention of Animal Epidemic Diseases
Article 10 In light of the harmfulness of animal epidemics to production of the breeding industry and to human health, the epidemics under control as prescribed by this Law are grouped into the following three categories:
1. Category I includes epidemics that menace human beings and animals so seriously that urgent and severe compulsory measures must be taken to prevent, control and eliminate them;
2. Category II includes epidemics that are liable to cause heavy economic losses and call for strict measures to control and eliminate them, and to prevent them from spreading;
3. Category III includes epidemics that are common and frequently-occurring, and are liable to cause heavy economic losses and need to be controlled and for which sterilization is necessary.
The catalogues of the specific diseases under the three categories of epidemics mentioned above shall be worked out and issued by the administrative department for animal husbandry and veterinary under the State Council.
Article 11 The administrative department for animal husbandry and veterinary under the State Council shall formulate national plans for animal epidemic prevention.
The administrative department for animal husbandry and veterinary under the State Council shall, in light of the animal epidemic situations at home and abroad and the need for protecting production of the breeding industry and human health, draw up and announce measures for animal epidemic prevention in good time.
The State practises a planned immunization system with regard to animal epidemics that seriously harm production of the breeding industry and human health and implements compulsory immunization. The catalogues of the animal epidemics that are subject to compulsory immunization shall be worked out and issued by the administrative department for animal husbandry and veterinary under the State Council.
With regard to prevention of the animal epidemics that are not subject to compulsory immunization, the administrative departments for animal husbandry and veterinary under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall formulate plans thereon and submit them to the people's governments at the same level for approval before implementation.
Article 12 The State shall take measures to prevent and eliminate animal epidemics that are seriously harmful to production of the breeding industry and to human health.
There shall be appropriate reserve of the medicines, biological products and relevant materials needed for preventing and eliminating animal epidemics, which shall be incorporated into the plans for national economic and social development .
Article 13 The institutions for supervision over animal epidemic prevention shall improve the publicity and education, technical guidance and training in animal epidemic prevention and consultancy service therefor, and see to it that the plans for immunization against animal epidemics are carried out .
Animal epidemic prevention organizations of townships, nationality townships and towns shall, under the guidance of the institutions for supervision over animal epidemic prevention, see to it that animal epidemics are effectively prevented.
Article 14 Units and individuals that raise and deal in animals or manufacture and deal in animal products shall , in accordance with the provisions of this Law and relevant State regulations, immunize the animals against epidemics in a planned way and prevent such diseases effectively and place themselves under the monitoring and supervision of the institutions for supervision over animal epidemic prevention.
Article 15 Animal-raising farms shall wipe out animal epidemics without delay.
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