Duty to
comply with require- meats of Veterinary Officer
where any dog or cat has or is suspected of having rabies.
Importation
Officer's permit pro- hibited.
12. Every person having the custody, control or care of any dog or cat which has or is suspected of having rabies, or which is suspected of having been in contact with a case of rabies or suspected rabies, shall comply with all the requirements of the Veterinary Officer with regard thereto.
13. No owner or person having the custody, control or care of dog or cat without
of any dog or cat shall allow such dog or cat to be imported into Veterinary the Colony, or if already so imported by water, to be landed in the Colony, or if already so imported by the Kowloon-Canton Railway, to be removed from the premises of the railway, or if already so imported by air to be removed from the airport, until he has received from the Veterinary Officer either a permit to import or a quarantine permit.
Certain certifiente
14. Subject to the provisions of regulation 15 no permit to import may be issued except on the production to the Veterinary bofore issue Officer of of import
required
permit.
Veterinary Officer may dispense with certi
ticate in paragraph (a) of re gulation 14.
(a) a certificate to the satisfaction of the Veterinary Officer, dated not more than two months before the dog or cat is imported or brought into the Colony, from a duly qualified veteri- mary surgeon or a medical officer of health or a British consular authority, that for a period of six months immediately prior to the date of such certificate no case of rabies has been known to occur in any district in which such dog or cat has been; and
(b) in the case of a dog or cat imported by water, a statutory declaration by the master of the vessel by which such dog or cat has been imported, or by the owner if he has travelled on the vessel with the dog or cat, that no case of rabies has occurred on board the vessel during the voyage.
15. The Veterinary Officer may in his discretion, on being satisfied that no case of rabies has occurred in the place or places where such dog or cat hus heen during the period of six months immediately preceding such importation, or that there is no reasonable fear of such dog or cat having been in contact with rabies, dispense with the certificate referred to in paragraph (4) of regulation 14.
arrival of
16. The owners, charterers or agents of any vessel which Duty to arrives in the waters of the Colony having on board any dog or report cat consigned to or intended for any person in the Colony shall dog or cat report the arrival of such dog or cat forthwith to the Veterinary in waters
of Culony. Officer, giving the name and address of the owner or consignee of such dog or cat and the description of such dog or cat.
call for
17. The master of any such vessel which arrives in the waters Duty of of the Colony shall not permit any dog or cat to be removed from master to such vessel until there has been produced to him a permit to quarantine import or a quarantine permit issued by the Veterinary Officer or import
permit, in respect of such dog or cat.
owners,
18. The owners, charterers or agents of any aircraft and the Duty of captain of any aircraft landing in the Colony shall not permit any charterers, dog or cat to be removed from such aircraft except to a place of agenta and safe custody provided by such owners, charterers, agents or captain captain in within the airport until there has been produced to him or them a of dogs and permit to import or a quarantine permit issued by the Veterinary cata arriv
ing by air- Officer in respect of such dog or cat.
craft.
the event
19. The owner or person having the custody, control or care. Dogs and of any dog or cat in respect of which he has received a quarantine cata la
respect of permit shall at his own expense immediately after receiving such which a permit take such dog or cat to a quarantine station to be detained quarantine permit has there for such period as the Veterinary Officer may prescribe. been issued
to be taken to QUOTED- tine utation.
detention of
20. The fee payable by the owner of any dog or cat while in Payment a quarantine station shall be in accordance with such scale of fees and re.
savery of as the Governor may from rime to time by notification in the fees in Gazelle prescribe. All fees shall be payable at the end of euch respect of month at the latest, and in any case before the removal of the dog dog or cat or cal from a quarantine station. The Veterinary Officer may in a quaran. destroy any dog or cat in respect of which the fees remain unpaid for a period of 15 days after becoming due, without prejudice to the recovery from the owner of all fees and other sums due, or may sell such dog or cat and out of the proceeds of sale thereof defray the amount of such fees.
tine station.
be allowed out except
21. No dog shall be allowed to go abroad in the public Dogs not to thoroughfares or elsewhere unless it is either on the lead, or is fitted with a nuzzle which renders the dog incapable of biting,
on a lead or filled with appropriate
muzzle.
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