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Part IX.

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Diseases of Animals.

427

of cattle either into or out of such parts of an infected area as are not comprised within an infected place {u). The same restriction holds good with regard to the movement of animals in the case of places or areas infected with foot and mouth

disease

922. Where the Board declare that the provisions of s. 12 Act of 1894 shall apply in the case of any disease, then, upon any place becoming a place infected with that disease in pursuance of a declaration of an inspector of a local authority, the whole space lying within a distance of half a mile from any part of a place declared infected becomes an infected circle; when the place in respect of which an infected circle has been constituted ceases to be an infected place, the infected circle ceases to exist (y). When an infected circle is declared, public notice may be ^iven the Board may of it, for which the Board may make regulations also make regulations for contracting and dissolving infected circles, may prohibit and regulate the movement of animals into, within, or out of the circle, and may authorise local authorities to do the same (z).

Sub-Sect.

6.

Slamjliter of

923. Foreign animals must be landed at a special wharf and they are removed ((x), and this regulation applies to all animals except such as may not be landed at all owing to prohibition (6), and such as are intended for exhibition or other exceptional purposes and allowed by the Board to land subject to quarantine (c). In such exceptional cases, they must be landed at a specified part of the port, and kept in particular sheds, and must not be moved except on conditions prescribed by the Board {d). With regard to animals from the Channel Islands and the isle of Man, the Board may make alterations in the above regulations

Cv)

Diseases of Animals Act, 1894 (57

&

58 Yict.

c. 57), s. 11,

and Schedule

I.,

I.

Ihid., Ihid., Ibid.,

Effect of declaration of infected circle.

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(e).

924. The Board must slaughter all animals affected with cattle plague, or which have been in contact with animals so affected, and may, if they think fit, slaughter animals suspected of cattle plague, or in a place infected with cattle plague, and (subject to Treasury Kegulations) animals in a place in an infected area (/).

(.x)

Infected circles.

Animals and Compensation.

killed before

(it)

2.

Statute.

(x).

of the

Part

Sect.

By

s.

11,

and Schedule

s.

12

(1), (2).

I.,

Part

II.

(z) 12. It may be noted that a conviction for moving infected s. animals in a county is no bar to proceedings in a borough for a like offence, although the movement was one continuous movement {R. v. Coidman (1883), 48 J. P. 8, a case decided at Doncaster Quarter Sessions). (a) Schedule III., Part L, para. (1). {h) See p. 424, aide. (c) Diseases of Animals Act, 1896(59 & 60 Vict. c. 15), s. 1. See the Eoreign Animals (Quarantine) Order, 1896 (5513). {d) Diseases of Animals Act, 1894(57 & 58 Yict. c. 57), s. 27, and Schedule III. Part II. {e). Ibid., s. 28 and see Channel Islands Animals Order, 1896 (5511), and Isle of Man Animals Order, 1896 (5512). (/) Diseases of Animals Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 57), s. 7.

Cattle plague,