practicable be well mixed with quicklime and be effectually removed from contact with animals. (4) The Local Authority shall at their own expense cause any litter, dung or broken fodder which appears to them or their Inspector to be likely to spread disease to be disinfected thoroughly, or to be burnt or destroyed if it is in their or his opinion impracticable to disinfect the same thoroughly. (5) Where the cost of disinfection has been increased by any wilful act or neglect on the part of the owner of the animal or carcase, the Local Authority shall be entitled to recover from the owner the additional cost so caused. (6) In the case of the existence or suspected existence of disease in a fourfooted mammal kept in any public or private zoological collection, or in the carcase of any such animal, the Local Authority may recover from the proprietor of the zoological collection the cost of the cleansing and disinfection required to be carried out under this Order. Facilities and Assistance to be given for Cleansing and Disinfection. 11. (1) The occupier of any place, and the owner of any thing, liable to be cleansed and disinfected under this Order shall give all reasonable facilities to the Local Authority and their officers for that purpose. (2) The Local Authority may by Notice in writing signed by an Inspector and served on the occupier of any premises or the owner of any thing liable to be cleansed and disinfected under this Order require him to cleanse and disinfect the same in the mode provided by this Order but at the expense of the Local Authority. Prohibition from Exposing or Moving Diseased or Suspected Animals or Carcases. 12. (1) Subject to any other provisions of this Order authorising the movement of animals or carcases, it shall be unlawful for any person (a) to expose a diseased or suspected animal in a market, fairground, sale-yard, place of exhibition or other public or private place where animals are commonly exposed for sale or exhibition; or (b) to place such animal in a lair or other place adjacent to or connected with a market, fairground, or saleyard, or where animals are commonly placed before or after exposure for sale or exhibition; or (c) to send or carry, or cause to be sent or carried, a deceased or suspected animal or carcase by railway, canal, river, or inland navigation, or in a coasting vessel; or (d) to send, carry, lead, or drive, or cause to be sent, carried, led, or driven, a diseased or suspected animal or carcase on a highway, road or lane; or (e) to place or keep a diseased or suspected animal on (g) to allow a diseased or suspected animal to stray on a be on common or uninclosed land, or in a field or place insufficiently fenced. (2) A diseased or suspected animal or carcase dealt with in contravention of this Article, shall be detained and access of other animals and poultry to it shall be prevented until it is certified under this Order that the animal or carcase was not diseased, or until it is moved as herein provided. (3) Such a diseased or suspected animal or carcase may be moved by or with the written permission of an Inspector of the Local Authority to a convenient and isolated place. (4) Any head of cattle, sheep, goat or swine which (i) has been in any pen, stall, lair, vehicle or railway truck in which a diseased or suspected animal or carcase has been exposed or otherwise dealt with in contravention of this Article, or (ii) has been carried in any manner mentioned in paragraph 1 (c) of this Article so as to have been exposed to infection from any such diseased or suspected animal or carcase, or (iii) has been in or on any place contaminated by any dung or other discharge from any such diseased or suspected animal or carcase shall be detained and access of other animals to it shall be prevented until an Inspector of the Local Authority otherwise determines. (5) Any such head of cattle, sheep, goat or swine may be moved by or with the written permission of an Inspector of the Local Authority to a convenient and isolated place or to a slaughterhouse for immediate slaughter thereat. (6) Where any animal is moved to a convenient and isolated place under the provisions of this Article, the provisions of this Order shall apply as if that place were premises on which there was a diseased or suspected animal or carcase. Copies of Notices to be sent to Ministry, &c. 13. An Inspector shall with all practicable speed send copies of any Notice served under this Order to the Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Whitehall Place, London, S.W.1, to the Local Authority, to the Medical Officer of Health, and to the police officer in charge of the nearest police station of the district. Digging up. 14. It shall not be lawful for any person, except under and in accordance with the provisions of a Licence of the Minister or with permission in writing of an Inspector of the Ministry to dig up, or cause to be dug up, the carcase of any animal that has been buried, whether under this Order or otherwise. Extension of the meaning of the purposes of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894. for 15. For the purpose of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, the definition of "animals " in that Act is hereby extended so as to include horses, asses, mules, dogs and any four footed mammal which is defined by this Order as an animal for the purposes thereof, and the definition of "disease" in that Act is hereby extended so as to include anthrax (that is to say, the disease called or known as anthrax, splenic fever or splenic apoplexy of animals). Local Authority to enforce Order. 16. The provisions of this Order, except where it is otherwise provided, shall be executed and enforced by the Local Authority. Presumption of Knowledge of Disease. 17. Where the owner or person in charge of an animal or carcase is charged with an offence against the Act of 1894 relative to anthrax, he shall be presumed to have known of the existence of that disease, unless and until he shows, to the satisfaction of the Court, that he had not knowledge thereof and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained that knowledge. Offences. 18. Any person committing or aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of any breach of the provisions of this Order is liable on summary conviction to the penalties provided by the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1927. Interpretation. 19. In this Order unless the context otherwise requires : "Animals" means cattle, sheep, goats and all other ruminating animals and swine, horses, asses, mules and dogs, and any four footed mammal kept in captivity except mammals in a pathological institute which is specified in a licence for the time being in force granted to any person under the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876. (a) Disease means anthrax (that is to say the disease called or known as anthrax, splenic fever or splenic apoplexy of animals). (a) 39-40 V. c. 77. 66 Diseased suspected anthrax. means affected with anthrax, and means suspected of being affected with "Approved disinfectant " means a disinfectant approved by the Minister for use for the purposes of the Diseases of · Animals (Disinfection) Order of 1926 (a) if used at the dilution at which it is so approved. "Poultry" includes domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls and pigeons. "Carcase means the carcase of an animal and includes part of the carcase and the meat, bones, hide, skin, hoofs, horns, offal and other part of an animal separately or otherwise or any portion thereof. "Inspector" includes veterinary inspector. Minister means the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. "Ministry Fisheries. means the Ministry of Agriculture and Revocation of Order. 20. The Anthrax Order of 1910(b) is hereby revoked, but any notice given and having effect under that Order at the time when this Order comes into force shall not be affected by this revocation. Extent. 21. This Order extends to England, Wales and Scotland. Commencement 22. This Order shall come into operation on the first day of October, 1928. Short Title. 23. This Order may be cited as the Anthrax Order of 1928. In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries is hereunto affixed this twentyeighth day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight. (L.S.) Charles J. H. Thomas, I, the undersigned, being an Inspector appointed by the Local Authority of the (county) of hereby give you notice as the occupier of the undermentioned premises on which there is [or has been] (a) S.R. & O. 1926 (No. 545) p. 69. (b) S.R. & O. 1910, No. 1023 (printed in London Gazette, October 7, 1910, not in S.R. & O. series). an animal (a carcase) which is affected with or suspected of being affected with anthrax, that in accordance with the provisions of the Order of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under which this Notice is issued, the under-mentioned premises become an Infected Place subject to the Rules printed on the back of this Notice. Dated this day of (Signed) Telegraphic Address 19. Description and limits of Infected Place. The Rules in Article 8 are to be printed on the back of this Notice. The expression "animals" means cattle, sheep, goats and all other ruminating animals and swine, horses, asses, mules and dogs, and any four-footed mammal kept in captivity except mammals in a pathological institute which is specified in a licence for the time being in force granted to any person under the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876. The Inspector is with all practicable speed to send copies of this Notice to the Local Authority; to the police officer in charge of the nearest police station of the district; to the Medical Officer of Health; and to the Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Whitehall Place, London, S.W.1. To C.D. FORM B. [ARTICLES 4 (4) AND 7 (2).] ANTHRAX ORDER OF 1928. Withdrawal of Notice Defining Infected Place (Form A). *[Take of notice that the Veterinary Inspector directed by the Local Authority under the Anthrax Order of 1928 to examine (here Ministry describe animal or carcase) has certified that it was not affected with anthrax and] 1, the undersigned, being an Inspector appointed by the Local Authority for the [County] of hereby withdraw, as from this 19, the Notice (Form A) and served upon you signed by on the day of day of premises in your occupation at day of Dated this. 19 19 relating to (Signed) A.B. NOTE. If the limits of the Infected Place specified in the Notice (Form A), have been altered by a subsequent Notice served by an • Strike out if inapplicable. |