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(5) The slaugthering or isolating or keeping under observation of any animal that may appear to be or may be reasonably suspected of being or of having been in contact or in the same herd with animals affected with disease and the disposition of the carcase thereof.
(6) Authorising and declaring of any place or area to be infected with disease. and prohibiting or regulating the move- ments of animals or persons into, within, or out of, any such infected place or area, and the removal of carcases, fodder. litter, utensils, pens, hurdles, dung, or other things into, within, or out of such infected place or area.
(7) Prescribing the mode of cleansing and disinfecting of places which have been occupied by any animal suffering from epidemic. endemic, contagious, or infectious disease.
The Prevention of the Introduction of Infectious Disease.
114. No person shall knowingly bring into the Colony Import of any animal suffering from disease:-
diseased animals prohibited.
prohibition
(1) When information is received that any disease Governor exists amongst any animals at any place without the may make Colony, the Governor may issue an order prohibiting, either order. absolutely or conditionally, the introduction either by land or by sea or the transhipment at any port of any animals from such places.
(2) Every order under the proceeding rule shall be published in the Gazette at the earliest opportunity but shall come into operation immediately upon the making of the
order.
to be
115.-(1) The master of any ship on board of which Animals on there is any animal, whether such animals is intended to be board ship landed in the Colony or not, shall forthwith on arrival of the reported by ship in the waters of the Colony report the fact to the boarding Boarding officer who shall without delay inform the Colonial Veterinary Officer. Surgeon.
(2) The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may visit such ship and examine such animal.
master to
116. Except under the authority of a permit granted by Landing of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, and except in accordance animals in
transit, with the terms of such permit, no animal which is brought into prohibited the waters of the Colony on board any vessel, and which is except under not destined for the Colony, shall be removed from such vessel in the waters of the Colony.
permit.
117. While any vessel which has on board any animals Dung and not destined for the Colony remains in the waters of the litter to be
properly Colony, all dung of the animals and all scrapings, litter and dealt with. sweepings removed from the vicinity of the animals, shall at intervals not exceeding twenty-four hours be dealt with and disposed of as the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may direct.
118. Carcases of animals dying or slaughtered on board No landing a vessel while in the waters of the Colony or during a voyage. shall not be landed in the Colony without a special permit.
of carcases except under special permit.
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