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(e) where the animal slaughtered was not affected with any kind of infectious disease among animals, the compensa- tion shall be its full value immediately before it was slaughtered.
(2) The value of an animal for the purposes of this section shall be determined by the Governor in Council.
(3) The maximum compensation shall be forty dollars in the case of a pig, and four hundred dollars in the case of any other animal.
(4) In the case of the slaughter of a bird, the maximum compensation payable shall be ten dollars.
(5) Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, the Governor in Council may, if he thinks fit, withhold, either wholly or partially, compensation for any animal or bird slaughtered by order of the Urban Council where, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, the owner of the animal or bird or the person having charge thereof has been guilty in relation to the animal or bird of an offence against this Ordinance or any by-law made thereunder or against any other Ordinance regulating the importation of animals or birds into the Colony or the control of animals or birds within the Colony.
(6) Unless otherwise ordered by the Governor in Council, no compensation shall be paid for any animal or bird which in the opinion of the Urban Council shows symptoms of disease before it has been in the Colony for the period of incubation of the disease in question.
(7) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to define by order, for the purposes of subsection (6), the periods of incubation of any diseases.
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8. The Council may, notwithstanding anything in this Retention for Ordinance, retain and reserve for observation or treatment any by order animal or bird liable to be slaughtered under this Crdinance, of the but in every such case compensation shall be payable as in the case of actual slaughter.
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9. The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, or any person Seizure of acting under his direction, may seize any animal, bird or contravention thing dealt with in contravention of this Ordinance or of of by-laws. by-law thereunder, and the Council may order the forfeiture of such animal, bird or thing, and the same shall thereupon be destroyed, sold or otherwise disposed of as the Council may direct.
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10. No compensation shall be paid in respect of any No com animal, bird or thing forfeited under this Ordinance or any of by-law thereunder, and such forfeiture shall not prejudice forfeiture, or avoid any prosecution for breach of this Ordinance or any by-law.
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11. (1) Every person who contravenes any of the Penalties. provisions of this Ordinance or of any by-law made thereunder shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, as well as to suffer any forfeiture that may be prescribed therein.