Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960
23. Procedure for registration. -
(1) Every person desirous of exhibiting or
training and performing animal shall, on making an application in the
prescribed form to the prescribed authority and on payment of the prescribed
fee, be registered under this Act unless he is a person who, by reason of an
order made by the court under this Chapter, is not entitled to be so
registered.
(2) An application for registration under this
Chapter shall contain such particulars as to the animals and as to the general
nature of the performance is which the animals are to be exhibited or for which
they are to be trained as may be prescribed, and the particulars so given shall
be entered in the register maintained by the prescribed authority.
(3) The prescribed authority shall give to
every person whose name appears on the register kept by them, a certificate of
registration in the prescribed form containing the particulars entered in the
register.
(4) Every register kept under this Chapter
shall at all reasonable times be open for inspection on payment of the
prescribed fee, and any person shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, be
entitled to obtain copies thereof or make extracts there from.
(5) Any person whose name is entered in the
register shall, subject to the provisions of any order made under this Act by
any court, be entitled, on making an application for the purpose, to have the
particulars entered in the register with respect to him varied, and where any
such particulars are so varied, the existing certificate shall be cancelled and
a new certificate issued.