ORDINANCES Nos. 19 AND 20 OF 1885. 1943
Cattle Disease. Administration of Passengers' Estates.
(2.) Prohibiting the keeping or having or moving about or selling or [See order in
Council 18th
slaughtering of any cattle, or the sale of milk or meat or animal November, 1885.]
refuse of any kind otherwise than subject to such conditions as may
be prescribed by such orders.
(3.) Authorizing inspectors of markets, or any other officers that may be
specified in such orders for the purpose to destroy or to isolate and
keep under observation any cattle that may appear to them to be or
to be reasonably suspected of being infected or to have been in contact
or in the same herd with cattle affected with disease.
3. The Governor in Council may at discretion pay out of the public revenues fair Compensation.
compensation for the destruction of any cattle which are destroyed under the provisions
of this Ordinance and which are proved to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council
to have been actually in the Colony at any time when the provisions of this Ordinance
are brought into force.
4. Any person who impedes an inspector of markets or any other officer appointed Penalties.
under this Ordinance to carry out the orders made by the Governor in Council under
this Ordinance or does anything in contravention of any of such orders shall be liable
on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding $200,
or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding 6 months.
In this Ordinance " cattle " means bulls, cows, oxen , heifers, calves, and buffaloes.
" Disease " means contagious pleuro- pneumonia.
[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 17 of 1887.]
NOTE. -For orders in Council under this Ordinance, see infra.
Order as to prevalence of cattle disease of the 18th November, 1885, (Gazette 21st of
same month.)
Order as to importation of cattle &c. , of the 18th November, 1885, (Gazette 21st of
same month.)
Order as to importation &c. , of 16th July, 1886, (Gazette 17th of same month.)
No. 20 of 1885.
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance 8 of 1860 .
[ 11th December, 1885. ]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
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Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
1. Ordinance 8 of 1860 is hereby amended by adding after section Amending
Ordinance
46 the following section . 8 of 1860.