THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 22, 1935.
(9) Prescribing the mode of cleansing and disinfecting of any place which has been occupied by any animal or bird suffering from epidemic, endemic, contagious or infectious disease.
subject to
4. (1) All by-laws made by the Urban Council shall be By-laws submitted to the Governor and shall be subject to the approval approval of of the Legislative Council.
(2) The by-laws in the Schedule shall be in force except as they may be rescinded, suspended, amended or added to by by-laws made by the Council under section 3.
Legislative Council
Schedule.
5.-(1) No person shall knowingly bring into the Colony Restrictions any animal or bird suffering from disease.
(2) When information is received that any disease exists amongst any animals or birds at any place without the Colony, the Governor may issue an order prohibiting, either absolutely or conditionally, the importation either by land or by sea or the transhipment in the Colony of any animals or birds from any such place.
(3) Every order issued under this section shall be published in the Gazette at the earliest opportunity but shail come into operation immediately upon the making of the order.
on import
of animals and birds.
and birds
with regard
to infected
areas.
6. Whenever it appears to the Governor, after such Movements enquiry as he may consider necessary, that any disease exists of animals among animals or birds in the Colony or in any part of the Colony, he may issue an order to regulate the movements of any animals and birds within such areas as he may define in such order, and to prohibit any animal or bird being taken into or removed from such area. Every such area shall be deemed an infected place.
Compensation for animals slaughtered by order of the
Urban Council.
for animals or birds
7.-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2), Compensation (3) and (4), the Governor in Council shall direct the following compensation to be paid out of the public revenue for any slaughtered animal or bird slaughtered by order of the Urban Council by order of under the provisions of this Ordinance or of any by-law Council. thereunder
(a) where the animal slaughtered was affected with rinderpest or swine fever, the compensation shall be one- half of its full value immediately before it became so affected; (b) where the animal slaughtered was affected with pleuro-pneumonia, the compensation shall be three-fourths of its full value immediately before it became so affected;
(c) where the animal slaughtered was affected with foot and mouth disease, the compensation shall be its full value immediately before it became so affected;
(d) where the animal slaughtered was affected with any other kind of infectious disease among animals, the compensa- tion shall be such proportion of its full value immediately before it became so affected as the Governor in Council may decide after taking the advice of the Urban Council;
the Urban
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