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Transitional provisions.

(Vol. X

p. 277).

the penalty provided therefor under the provisions of paragraph (1), (2). (3) or (4), as the case may be, be liable to a fine of fifty dollars for each day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the offence has continued.

17. Any licence granted under Part III of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations which is in force at the commencement of these regulations shall be deemed, for all purposes, to have been granted under regulation 5.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

13th September, 1960.

Explanatory Note.

Live

Clerk of Councils,

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purportį.

These regulations replace Part III of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations (Vol. X, p. 277) The subject matter of these regulatioas is the same as the subject matter of Part III of the above regulations, though, as will be observed, the phrase "bird shops" has been replaced by the phrase "animal dealers" which, it is thought, describes more accurately the nature of de businesses for which the regulations provide.

2. The circumstances which have led to the making of these regulations are as follows. In connexion with the recent revision of the legislation regulating. matters connected with public health, it has been decided that the Director of Agriculture and Forestry shall be the authority for the licensing and control of those businesses and not the Urban Council as provided in Part III of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations. That being 30, it is considered: desirable to revoke Part 111 of those regulations and to replace the provisions contained therein by regulations made under the Public Health (Animals and Birds) Ordinance (Cap. 139). The advantage to be gained from taking thi course is that the provisions that Ordinance which vest in the Director of Agriculture and Forestry and in other specified public officers certain power with respect to the enforcement of regulations made thereunder will apply.

3. Apart from changes in form, the provisions of these regulations as Juve in one respect, the same as the provisions of the regulations which they replace. The provisions of these regulations which have no counterpart in Parl til of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations are those contained in regulations 8 and 9, It is considered necessary, for the better protection of the animals and birds concerned, that no person shall be permitted to hawk animab or binds unless he is employed by, or is the agent of, a licensed animal deale These provisions are supplemented by the provisions of paragraph (3) of regal- tion 10 which provide that animals or birds which are taken away from the premises of a licensed animal dealer for the purpose of hawking must be returned to those premises at the end of each day,

(Secretariat L/M G. 9507/59)

PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS) ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 139).

PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND Birds) (Keeping of Cattle, SwIND,

SHEEP AND GOATS) REGULATIONS, 1960.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Public Health (Animals and Birds) Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-

PART 1,

Preliminary and application.

commence. Kent.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Animals Citation and and Birds) (Keeping of Cattle, Swine, Sheep and Goats) Regulations, 1960, and shall come into operation on the day appointed for the com- mencement of the Public Health (Animats and Birds) (Amendment) Ordinance. 1960.

2. These regulations shall not apply-

(a) to any cattle, swine, sheep or goals kept by the Crown;

(6) to any cow or buffalo kept for the purpose of trade in milk and which is entered in a herd register kept pursuant to the provisions of regulation 26 of the Dairies Regulations, 1960;

or

(c) in the New Territories, excluding New Kowloon.

PART II.

Licensing and registration.

Application.

3. Save under and in accordance with a licence from the Director, Prohibido person shall keep any cattle, swine, sheep or goats.

of keeping

of cattle, etc.

without licence.

Director to

4 (1) Upon application in such form as may be prescribed by Power of the Director, the Director may grant to any person a licence to keep cattle, swine, sheep or goats and may renew any such licence,

(2) Every such licence shall expire on the 31st day of December. (3) Save as provided in paragraph (4) the fees hereinafter set out shall be payable on the grant or renewal of any such licence—

(a) in the case of a licence to keep cattle, twenty dollars per annum

for each animal kept by the licensee:

licen

keeping of cattle, etc.