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A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 30-18.1.35.-10.]
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to Quarantine and the Prevention of Disease among animals and birds.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health Short title. (Animals and Birds) Ordinance, 1935.
2.-(1) In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise Interpreta- requires:
(a) 'Animals' means cattle, sheep, goats and all other: ruminating animals, and swine and equines.
(b) 'Authorised landing place' means any place declared by this Ordinance or any by-law made thereunder to be an authorised landing place and any other place declared by the Council and notified in the Gazette to be a landing place.
(c) 'Birds' means poultry and all other birds which are ordinarily kept in a state of captivity.
(d) 'Carcase' means the carcase of an animal or bird, and includes part of a carcase and the meat, bones, hide, skin, hoofs, horns, offal or other part of an animal or bird, separately or otherwise, or any portion thereof.
(e) 'Cattle' includes bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, calves and buffaloes.
(f) 'Council' means the Urban Council unless some other Council is indicated.
(g) 'Disease' includes cattle plague or rinderpest, septicaemia haemorrhagica, pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa of cattle, foot and mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep scab, swine fever, anthrax, glanders (including farcy), parasitic mange, epizootic lymphangitis, ulcerative cellulitis, dourine, sarcoptic mange, influenza, ringworm, strangles, anaplasmosis, fowl cholera, fowl pox, rabies and any other disease declared by the Council and notified in the Gazette as included in the term disease for the purposes of this Ordinance or any by-law made thereunder.
(h) Equines' includes horses, asses, mules and all other equine animals.
(i) 'Fodder' means grass or other substance commonly used for the food of animals.
() 'Litter' means straw or other substance commonly used for bedding or otherwise for or about animals.
(k) 'Poultry' includes domestic fowls, turkeys, ducks, pigeons and geese.
(1) 'Segregation place' means any place appointed by the Council to be a place where animals or birds may be confined and isolated in order to prevent or mitigate disease or the spread of disease, and includes the Government depots.
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