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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 22, 1935.

HONG KONG.

No. 16 or 1935.

I assent.

L.S.

W. PEEL,

Governor.

22nd March, 1935.

An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to Quarantine and the Prevention of Disease among animals and birds.

[22nd March, 1935.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health Short title. (Animals and Birds) Ordinance, 1935.

2.-(1) In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise Interpreta- requires :----

(a) Animals' means cattle, sheep, goats and all other ruminating animals, and swine and equines.

(b) 'Authorised landing place' means any place declared by this Ordinance or any by-law made thereunder to be an authorised landing place and any other place declared by the Council and notified in the Gazette to be a landing place.

(c) 'Birds' means poultry and all other birds which are ordinarily kept in a state of captivity.

(d) 'Carcase' means the carcase of an animal or bird, and includes part of a carcase and the meat, bones, hide, skin, hoofs, horns, offal or other part of an animal or bird, separately or otherwise, or any portion thereof.

(e) 'Cattle' includes bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, calves and buffaloes.

() 'Colonial Veterinary Surgeon' includes any Veterinary Surgeon authorised by the Governor to perform the duties of a Colonial Veterinary Surgeon under this Ordinance and also any Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.

(g) 'Council' means the Urban Council unless some other Council is indicated.

(h) 'Disease' includes cattle plague or rinderpest, septicaemia haemorrhagica, pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa of cattle, foot and mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep scab, swine fever, anthrax, glanders (including farcy), parasitic mange. epizootic lymphangitis, ulcerative cellulitis, dourine, sarcoptic mange, influenza, ringworm, strangles, anaplasmosis, fowl cholera, fowl-pox, rabies and any other disease declared by the Council and notified in the Gazette as included in the term disease for the purposes of this Ordinance or any by-law made thereunder,

(i) 'Equines' includes horses, asses, mules and all other equine animals.

(j) 'Fodder' means grass or other substance commonly used for the food of animals.

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