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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 8, 1915.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 1.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
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16th November, 1914.
SIR,- With reference to Mr. Chamberlain's Circular despatch of the 11th March, 1902, I have the honour to transmit, for information in the Colony under your govern- ment, copies of an Order made by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries entitled the Importation of Dogs Order, 1914. This Order, which supersedes the Order of 1901, came into operation on the 1st instant.
2. The principal changes effected by the new Order are:-
(a) An alteration from SIX to FOUR calendar months in the prescribed period of
detention of imported dogs (Article 2), and
(b) An additional provision to secure that transhipments of imported dogs in
ports in Great Britain are regulated (Article 8).
3. With regard to (a) the Board have decided to discontinue the procedure hitherto adopted, under which the prescribed period of quarantine of an imported dog was, on production by the owner of a satisfactory declaration as to the care and control of the dog prior to importation, reduced in certain cases to a minimum period of three calendar months from the date of the landing of the dog. The new period of FOUR calendar months' quarantine will therefore apply to all dogs landed in Great Britain from abroad, subject to certain exceptions in the case of dogs brought from Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Jamaica."
I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
ORDER OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.
(DATED 23RD OCTOBER 1914.)
Importation of Dogs Order of 1914.
The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in them under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1914, and of every other power enabling them in this behalf, do order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
Restriction on Importation of Dogs.
1.-(1.) An imported dog, that is to say, a dog brought to Great Britain from any other country, except Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, shall not be landed in Great Britain unless its landing is authorised by a licence of the Board pre- viously obtained, and when landed it shall be subject to the provisions of this Order, and to the conditions inserted in any licence authorising its landing.
(2.) The provisions of this Order shall also apply to a dog taken from Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man into any port in any country (except Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man), as if the animal were an imported animal, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Board that the animal has not been landed in that country and that while on board it has not been allowed to come in contact with any dog or other canine animal from that country, and unless the landing of the animal in Great Britain is authorised by a licence of the Board previously obtained.
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