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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST NOVEMBER, 1885.
2. At any time and from time to time while a Proclama- tion made under Section 1 of this Ordinance is in force the Governor in Council may make and when made, alter, add to, or revoke orders in respect of the following matters :- (1.) Prohibiting the importation or landing of cattle, otherwise than at sneh times and places, and sub- ject to such conditions regarding inspection, isola- tion and subsequent disposal as may be prescribed by such orders.
(2.) Prohibiting the keeping or having or moving about or selling or slaughtering of any cattle, or the sale of milk or meat or animal 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 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 forec.
4. Any person who impedes an Inspector of Markets or any other Officer appointed 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 impri- sonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceed- ing 6 mouths.
In this Ordinance “cattle" means bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, calves, and buffaloes.
"Disease" means contagious pleuro-pneumonia.
ARATIOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
Orders by Governor in Council.
Compensation.
Penalties.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 445.
The following Order of the Governor in Council is published under Section 1 of Ordinance 19 of 1885.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th November, 1885.
:
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
ORDER
Made by the Governor in Council under Section 1 of Ordinance 19 of 1885, this 18th day of November, 1885.
Whereas it has been made to appear to the Governor in Council that cattle disease as defined in Ordinance 19 of 1885 prevails in this Colony, it is hereby declared and proclaimed under the provisions of Section 1 of the said Ordinance that the Colony shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 2, 3, and 4, of the said Ordinance.
ARATHOON SETHI, Clerk of Councils,
Council Chamber, Hongkong.
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