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ORDINANCE IX OF 1979 ORDINANCE IX OF 1979 BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1979 CHAPTER XI‑COMPULSORY FUNCTION OF MUNICIPAL COMMITTEES (E) Animals and Cattle 76. Prohibition against keeping and maintaining.‑(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law or spy agreement, instrument, custom or usage or decree, judgment or' order of any Court or other authority‑ . (a) no person shall; after the expiry of the period . allowed under sub. section (2) keep or maintain. cattle in any part of a prohibited zone Provided that the prohibition shall not apply to‑‑. (i) cattle kept bona fide for sacrificial purposes ; (ii) cattle kept for drawing carts or use in milts with the permission of the Municipal Committee and subject to such conditions as it may impose ; (iii) cattle under treatment in any veterinary hospital ; (iv) cattle brought to a cattle market demarcated by the Municipal Committee for the purposes of sale ; and (v) cattle brought to a slaughter house or kept by butchers for the purpose of slaughter within the area demarcated by the Municipal Committee. (b) no person shall, within the limits of the Municipal Committee keep, tether, shall feed or graze any cattle on any road, street or thoroughfare or in any public place. (2) The Municipal Committee may, by a general or specific order, direct that any person in charge of cattle shall remove the cattle from the prohibited zone within such period as may be specified. (3) Persons affected by the prohibition order under subsection (i) (a) to meet their genuine needs, may be allowed to keep and maintain their cattle at the places earmarked as "Cattle Colonies" by the Municipal Committee on such terms and conditions as it may impose.