An Act to Regulate and Control the Manufacture, Importation, Labelling, Advertising and Sale of Livestock and Poultry Feeds

REPUBLIC ACT No. 1556

An Act to Regulate and Control the Manufacture, Importation, Labelling, Advertising and Sale of Livestock and Poultry Feeds

Livestock and Poultry Feeds Act

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. This Act shall be known as the "Livestock and Poultry Feeds Act."

Section 2. Enforcing Official. -This Act shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources thru the Director, Bureau of Animal Industry.

Section 3. Definitions. -For the purpose of this Act, the following terms shall mean:

Section 4. Registration. -(a) Any person, partnership, firm, corporation or association desiring to engage in the manufacture, importation, sale or distribution of feeds or feeding stuffs shall first be registered in the Office of the Director.

Section 5. Labelling. -Every package containing feed or feeding stuff shall be labelled as follows:

Section 6. There should be created in the manner authorized by law an adequate section or division composed of employees taken from the present personnel of the Bureau of Animal Industry as the Director may consider necessary for effectively carrying out the provisions of this Act.

Section 7. An inspector shall be permitted at all reasonable times to enter any premises in which feeds are sold or held in possession for sale or when he has reasonable cause to believe any feed or feeding stuff is being prepared or has been prepared for sale, and may take for analysis samples of any feed or feeding stuff there found without cost.

Section 8. Regulations. -The Director, subject to the approval of the Secretary, shall promulgate rules and regulations:

Section 9. Fees and Expenditures. -(a) Aside from the registration fees as provided in section four, subsection (c) of this Act, there shall be collected an inspection fee at the rate of twenty centavos per metric ton of all complete mixed feeds, supplement, and/or concentrates.

Section 10. Offense and Penalties. -(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, firm, corporation or association to engage in the manufacture, importation, sale or distribution of feeds or feeding stuffs without having first registered in the Office of the Director of Animal Industry: Provided, However, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the sale or distribution of the by-products of grains, such as rice bran, rice crush, corn bran and corn crush, which are sold in their natural state as feeding stuff without having been further processed, mixed with other ingredients, or otherwise manufactured into another form.

Section 11. All Acts or parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Section 12. This Act shall take effect after thirty days from the date of its approval.

Approved: June 16, 1956.