IMPORTATION OF EQUINES (PROHIBITION) ORDER

IMPORTATION OF EQUINES (PROHIBITION) ORDER

PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS).

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Order by the Governor in Council ...... ... ... W4
Importation of Equines (Prohibition) Ordei ... 104
Public Health (Anin-ials and Birds) By-laws ... 1(5
Lapinised Rinderpest Vaccine Inoculation B~,-!.i~vs 116

ORDER BY THE GOVERNOR.IN COUNCIL.

(C~LP. 139, section 7(7)
(Ordinance No. 16 of 1935).

[6th March, io36.]

The Governor in Council has defined, for the purposes
of subsection (6) of section 7, the periods of incubation of
the undermentioned diseases as hereunder set forth-
Disease. Perlod of Iitcubatio,it.
(a) anthrax fourteen days.
(b) ]'cot and mouth disease twenty-one days.
(c) cattle plague or rinderpest fourteen days.
(d) septicwi-nia hxmorrhagica fourteen days.
(e) surra ... - ... ... ...... ... (wciity7one days.
(f) red water (Texas fever) ...... ... twenly-one d~t~,s.
(g) pleuro-pneunnonia contagiosa of
cattle ... ... ... ... six months.
(h) buffalo disease ... ... fourteen days.

IMPORTATION OF EQUINES (PROHIBITION) ORDER.

(Cap. 139, section 5).
'Ordinance No. 16 of 1(35).

[7th January, 1949.1

1. This Order may be cited as the Importation ol'
Equines (Prohibition) Order.





2. The importation into the Colony or transhipment
within the Colony of equities from any country in Asia is
probibited except under and in accordance with a permit in.
that behalf previously obtained and issued by the Senior
Veterinary Officer.

PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS) BY-LAWS.

(Cap. 139).
(Ordinance No. 16 of 1935).

[1st January, 1936.]

The Prevention of the Introduction of Infectious Disease.

1. Except tinder the authority of a permit granted by
the Senior Veterinary Officer, and except in accordance with
the terms of such permit, no anirnal which is brought into
the waters of the Colony on board any vessel, and which is
not destined for the Colony, shall be removed from such
vessel in tile Waters of the Colony.

2. While any vessel which has on board any animals
or birds not destined for the Colony remains in the waters
of the Colony, all dung of the animals, and all scrapings,
litter and sweepings rernoved from the vicinity of the animals
or birds, shall at intervais not exceeding twenty-four tours
be dealt with and disposed of as the Senior Veterinary Officer
may direct.

3. Calcases of animals or birds which have died or been
slaughtered on board a vessel while in the waters of the
Colony or during a voyage shall not be landed in the Colony
without a special permit.

Special Permits.

4. Except in accordance with a special permit, no
animal shall be landed from any vessel between 6 p.m. and
6 a.m.
G.N. 226/36. G.N.A. 4/49. Citation. Importation, etc., of equines from any country in Asia prohibited. Ord. 16 of 1935, s.4 (2), Schedule. G.N. 601/47. G.N.A. 87/51. Landing of animals in transit prohibited except under permit. Dung and litter to be properly dealt with. No landing of carcases except under special permit. Landing of animals prohibited between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.

G.N. 226/36. G.N.A. 4/49. Citation. Importation, etc., of equines from any country in Asia prohibited. Ord. 16 of 1935, s.4 (2), Schedule. G.N. 601/47. G.N.A. 87/51. Landing of animals in transit prohibited except under permit. Dung and litter to be properly dealt with. No landing of carcases except under special permit. Landing of animals prohibited between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.

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