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.

Animals.

426 Sect.

By

2.

Statute.

Independent declaration

by Board.

919. The Board is unrestricted, and may at any time if they fit on any evidence satisfactory to them by order declare any place or area to be infected with cattle plague, pleuropneumonia, or foot and mouth disease, or extend, contract, or think

alter tlie limits of

any part

them

of

such infected place or area, or declare them or

free

from infection

(/c).

920. In the case of diseases other than cattle plague, pleuro-pneumonia, or foot and mouth disease, the Board can

Other diseases.

make

orders prescribing the cases in which places and areas be declared infected, and the authority by which they may be declared, and the duration and discontinuance of the declarations (l) When a place or area is declared infected, notice of the fact may be published in the neighbourhood, and the Board may by order prescribe and regulate this (m). are

Notice of declaration.

Eegulations as to removal, isolation,

destruction,

and

to

exclude unauthorised persons.

Movement into, within,

and out

of

infected areas

and

921. The Board may prohibit and regulate the movement animals and persons as well as of carcases and other things whether into, or within, or out of an infected place of

area (o) may prescribe and regulate the isolation and separation of animals there the destruction, treatment, or removal of carcases and other things {q), and the cleansing and disinfection of infected places and areas or parts thereof (r) as well as the clothes of persons coming in contact with diseased or suspected animals or being in an infected place, and the use of precautions against the spreading of disease by such persons (s). The owner or person in charge of animals in an infected place or area may forbid by notice the entrance of persons therein without permission (t). When a place is infected with pleuro-pneumonia, only cattle which have the disease may be moved into it, and no cattle may be moved out of it, except on such conditions as may be prescribed by the Board. A local authority, however, may give licences (on conditions prescribed by the Board) for the movement or

dis-

infection.

Power

to

places.



Pleuro-pneumonia Order, 1895, ss. Sheep Pox Order, 1895, 1895, s. 21 (/t) Diseases of Animals Act, 1894

15,

18;

Foot and Mouth Disease Order,

ss. 14, 17.

(57

&

58 Vict.

57), ss. 5 (10), 6, 8 (12),

c.

9(1). (/)

1895, (m) (//)

Ibid.,

s.

10

(1),

and

see

Swine Pever Order, 1894,

s.

Sheep Pox Order,

3;

ss. 3, 5.

Act of 1894, Ihid., s. 22

Order, 1895,

s.

22

(iv.)

(i.).

Cattle Plague Order, 1895,

s.

3; Pleuro-pneumonia

s. 3.

Act of 1894, s. 22 (ii.). Compare Eustace v. Sargent (1866), 14 L. T. 552. justices of the county from which the animals are moved also have jurisdiction {R. V. Williams (1866), 15 L. T. 290). (p) Act of 1894, s. 22 (iii.). {q) Ibid., s. 22 (v.). (r) Ibid., s. 22 (vi.) Poot and Mouth Cattle Plague Order, 1895, s. 5, r. 4 Disease Order, 1895, s. 4, r. 5 ; Sheep Pox Order, 1895, s. 4, r. 5 ; Swine Pever Order, 1894, s..4, r. 5. (s) Act of 1894, s. 22 (vii.) Poot and Cattle Plague Order, 1895, s. 2 (3) Mouth Disease Order, 1895, s. 3 (2) Sheep Pox Order, 1895, s. 2 (3). it) Act of 1894, s. 13. (o)

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