Dogs and Cats Ordinance.
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CHAPTER 167.
DOGS AND CATS ORDINANCE.
To regulate the keeping and control of dogs and cats and 1 of 1950.
to provide for the suppression of rabies.
[6th January, 1950.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Dogs and Cats Ordinance.
2.
In this Ordinance-
"cat" includes the male and female animal of any age; "dog" includes the male and the female animal of any age;
"New Territories" does not include New Kowloon; "officer of the Sanitary Department" includes any veterinary officer, health officer, health inspector or overseer of the Sanitary Department working under the direction of a health officer or health inspector for the purpose of this Ordinance;
"vessel" includes any kind of water-borne craft; "veterinary officer" includes the Senior Veterinary Officer and any veterinary officer appointed by the Governor to perform the duties of a veterinary officer and also any veterinary surgeon for the time being performing the duties of the Senior Veterinary Officer or a veterinary officer.
Interpretation.
3. (1) The Governor in Council may by regulations prescribe or provide for-
(a) controlling dogs and cats and their importation, movement, slaughter and sale, and for the prohibition of the sale of the flesh of dogs and cats;
(b) licensing dogs;
(c) authorizing the inspection, seizure, detention, destruction or other disposition of dogs and cats and their carcases;
(d) the prevention and control, whether by inoculation, disinfection or otherwise of rabies or the spreading of rabies;
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