1. The petitioner No. 2 is an association of persons who are running salvage farms. The petitioner No. 1 is the President of that association. The petitioner No. 2 association has been registered under the Bombay Non - Trading Corporations Act, 1959. Its members have been running salvage farms at village Kakoshi and other places in Mehsana District. At their salvage farms, they receive drought buffaloes, treat them for a period of time and make them milch buffaloes. When drought buffaloes become milch buffaloes, after receiving treatment at the salvage farms, they are returned to their owners. Drought buffaloes are received at these salvage farms even from outside the State of Gujarat - more particularly from Bombay. The owners of the salvage farms charge the owners of such buffaloes only for their labour and service. They neither purchase nor sell the buffaloes.

2. In 1958, the Bombay Essential Commodities and Cattle (Control) Act. 1958 was enacted by the Bombay Legislature, inter alia, to provide for maintenance and movement of cattle. It applies amongst others to buffaloes. Under the said Act, the Government of Gujarat has made the Gujarat Cattle (Export Control) Order, 1961 (her