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 Animals.

402 Sect.

By

is committed in relation to more than four dogs, not exceeding five pounds for each dog (w). The power of seizing an offending dog and of prosecuting an offender is vested in the police and in the inspectors appointed under the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894 (v).

2.

Statute.

869. Every person having or having had in his possession a dog affected with or suspected of rabies, must with all practicable

Rabies Order.

Slaughter of diseased or suspected dog.

speed give notice thereof to a local police constable, who must forthwith telegraph the information to the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (x), and must also inform the local inspector, who must at once report to the local authority (y). The local authority must cause to be slaughtered every dog within their district which is diseased or suspected, or which has been bitten by a diseased or suspected dog{z), and the owner or person in charge of the dog must give them all reasonable facilities for that purpose (a),

A

veterinary inspector's certificate that an

affected with rabies is conclusive Preventive measures.

A of

local authority

animal

is

or

was

(b).

must make provision

for securing the isolation

dogs which have been exposed to the infection of rabies, and

may make

regulations for the disinfection of places and things

used by a diseased or suspected dog, and may also give public warning by advertisement or otherwise of the existence of rabies in any place (c). Every dog is deemed to have been exposed to infection which has been in the same shed, stable, building, kennel, field or other place as, or otherwise in contact with, any diseased or suspected dog (d). Importation of dogs.

870. A licence from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries is required before a dog can be brought into this country from abroad (e). Conditions may be attached to the grant of a licence; these principally relate to the movement of the dog when landed, its being placed in a proper hamper etc. during transit, and to muzzling (/). An imported dog must, for a period of six calendar (u) s.

Dogs Order,

1906,

s.

3; Diseases of

Animals Act, 1894

(57

&

58 Vict.

c.

57),

51.

(v) Dogs Order, 1906, s. 4, which makes dogs " animals " for the purposes of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, ss. 43, 44 (powers of police and inspectors), see pp. 431, 4:32, jjost. (x) The present address of the Board is 4, Whitehall Place, London, S.W. For the meaning of "local authority," see (y) Eabies Order, 1897, s. 1. note (^), p. 401, ante. (z) Eabies Order, 1897, s. 4. (a) Ihid., s. 5. The penalty for an offence against this section is the same as that for allowing a dog to be at large without a collar, see p. 401, ante.

(b) Ibid., s.

6

(3).

Offences against the Eabies Order are to be treated as offences against the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894. They may be punished on summary conviction by the penalties indicated above (p. 401) in the case of a collarless dog. Ibid., s. 22. (c)

Ihid., ss. 3, 8, 9, 14.

(d) Ibid., s, 7.

A licence

not required in respect of a dog brought from Ireland, the Isle of Man (Importation of Dogs Order, 1901, s. 1). (/) Importation of Dogs Order, 1901, ss. 1, 3. This order is to be executed and enforced by the local authority. (e)

is

Channel Islands, or the -