PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS) ORDINANCE

PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS) ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS) ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 139





CHAPTER 139.

PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS) ORDINANCE.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Section. Page.

1. Short title ... ... ... ... ...... ... 1 .. ... ... ... ... 2

2. Interpretation ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2

3. Power to make regulations ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 4

4. Restrictions on import of animals and birds ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 6

5. Movements of animals and birds with regard to infected areas ... ... ... 6

COMPENSATION FOR ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTOR.
6..........................................Compensation for animals or birds slaughtered by order of the Director 6

7...............................Retention for observation by order of the Director .... ... ... ... 8
8...............................Seizure of animals for contravention of regulations ... ... ... ... 8

9........................No compensation in case of forfeiture ... ... ... . ... 8

PROTECTION AND SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC AT PLACES WHERE WILD ANIMALS

AND WILD BIRDS ARE EXHIBITED.
9A................................Notice of intention to exhibit a wild animal or wild bird ... ... ... 8

9B.......................Power of Director to require work done ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 9

PENALTIES.

10........Penalties .......................... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 9

APPEAL To GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

11. Appeal to Governor in Council against decision of any person entrusted with

power under this Ordinance ............... ... ... ... ... ... ... 9

12. Governor in Council empowered in any appeal to state case for the opinion

of Full Court on question of law ......... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10

13..............................Order of Governor in Council enforced by the Court ... ... ... ... 10

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

14. Limitation of liability of member of Agriculture and Fisheries Department,

etc. .................................... ... ... ... ... ... ... 11

MISCELLANEOUS.

15............Powers of entry ................ ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 11
16............Obstruction, etc . ............. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

17.................Appointment of inspectors ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
18.................Amendment of Schedule ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Schedule...Form............................. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...





CHAPTER 139.

PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS).

To consolidate and amend the law relating to quarantine and the
prevention of disease among animals and birds, to make provision
relating to the slaughter human consumption of animals and birds,
the processing a export of the carcasses thereof and to provide for
1 the protection tion and safety of the public at places
where wild an animals and wild birds are exhibited. (Amended, 4
of 1967, s. 2 and 80 of 1970, s. 2)


[1st January, 1936.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health (Animals and
Birds) Ordinance.

2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires

'animals' means cattle, sheep, goats, all other ruminating animals, swine,
equines, and all other warm-blooded vertebrates except man and
birds, and reptiles; (Replaced, 24 of 1950, Schedule. Amended, 25
qf 1960, s. 2)

'authorized landing place' means any place declared by this Ordinance
or any regulation made thereunder to be an authorized landing
place and any other place declared by the Director and notified in
the Gazette to be a landing place; (Amended, 17 of 1956, s. 2)

'birds' means poultry and all other birds; (Amended, 25 of 1960, s.2)







carcass'' means the carcass of an animal or bird, and includes part of a
carcass and the meat, bones, hide, skin, hoofs, horns, offal or other
part of an animal or bird, separately or otherwise, or any portion
thereof;

'cattle' includes bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, calves and buffaloes;

'dairy' includes any farm, cowshed, milk store or other place from which
milk is supplied on or for sale or in which milk is kept or used for
purposes of sale or manufacture into butter, cheese, dried milk or
condensed milk for sale and, in the case of a purveyor of milk who
does not occupy any premises for the sale of milk, includes the
place where he keeps the vessels used by him for the sale of milk,
but does not include a shop from which milk is supplied only in the
properly closed and unopened receptacles in which it was
delivered to the shop, or a shop or other place in which milk is sold
for consumption

on the premises only; (Added, 17 of 1956, s. 3)





'Director' means the Director of Agriculture and Fisheries and any
Assistant Director of Agriculture and Fisheries; (Replaced, 4 of
1967, s. 3)

'disease' includes cattle plague or rinderpest, septicaemia
haemorrhagica, pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa of cattle, foot and
mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep scab, swine fever, anthrax,
glanders (including farcy), parasitic mange, epizootic lymphangitis,
ulcerative cellulitis, dourine, sarcoptic mange, influenza, ringworm,
strangles, anaplasmosis, fowl cholera, fowl-pox, rabies, contagious
bovine abortion, surra, red water (Texas fever), buffalo disease,
tuberculosis, Newcastle disease of poultry and any other disease
declared by the Director and notified in the Gazette as included in
the term disease for the purposes of this Ordinance or any
regulation made thereunder; (Amended, G.N. 129136; G.N.A.
143150; 24 of 1950, Schedule, and 17 of 1956, s. 2)

'equines' includes horses, asses, mules and all other equine animals;

'fodder' means grass or other substance commonly used for the
food of animals; A

'health officer' means the Director of Medicl and Health Services,
the Deputy Director of Medical and Health Services, any Assistant
Director of Medical and Health Services, any
person appointed by the Governor to be a health officer and any
person for the time being performing the duties of a health officer;
(Added, 25 of 1960, s. 2)

'inspector' means any person appointed as an inspector under section
17; (Added, 25 of 1960, s. 2)

'litter' means straw or other substance commonly used for bedding or
otherwise for or about animals;

14 milk' includes cream and skimmed and separated milk; (Added, 17 of
1956, s. 3)

poultry' includes domestic fowls, turkeys, ducks, pigeons and geese;

segregation place' means any place appointed by the Director to be a
place where animals or birds may be confined and isolated in order
to prevent or mitigate disease or the spread of disease, and also
means the Government depots; (Amended, 17 of 1956,s.2)

senior veterinary officer- includes any veterinary officer and assistant
veterinary officer authorized by the Director to perform the duties
of a senior veterinary officer under this Ordinance; (Replaced, 17
of 1956, s. 3)

special permit means a written permission granted by and in the
discretion of the senior veterinary officer;





'wild animals' means all animals other than those classed at common
law as domestic; (Added, 4 of 1967, s. 3)

'wild birds' means all birds other than poultry and those kept
principally or solely as pets. (Added, 4 of 1967, s. 3)

(2) Other words and expressions used in this Ordinance shall bear
the same meanings as they have in the Quarantine and Prevention of
Disease Ordinance.

3. (1) The Governor in Council may by regulation provide for the
following matters- (Amended, 17 of 1956, s. 4)

(a) inspection, testing for disease, inoculation, d en detention

segregation, housing, slaughtering transhipment ii exporta
tion, possession and control of animals and birds;

(b) prohibition or regulation of-

(i) the slaughtering of animals and birds intended for export;

(ii) the export of carcasses prepared for human
consumption; and

(iii) the preparation for human consumption of carcasses in
conjunction with any substance or otherwise; (Added, 80 of
1970, s. 3)

(c)licensing premises and persons engaged in or connected with
any matter specified in paragraph (b); (Added, 80 of 1970,s.3)

(d)condemnation and disposal, with or without compensation, of

(i) poultry; and

(ii) carcasses thereof,

which on inspection are found to be unfit for human
consumption; (Added, 80 of 1970, s. 3)

(e) empowering the Director-

(i) to attach to any licence issued under this Ordinance such
conditions as he may see fit to impose; and

(ii) to give such directions as he thinks fit for the

purposes of this Ordinance; (Added, 80 of 1970, s. 3)

(f) disposal of the dead bodies of animals and birds;

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(g)construction, regulation , licensing, disinfection and inspection
of all places, vessels and vehicles in which animals or birds are
or have been kept or carried;

(h)fees to be paid for licences, housing, inspection, testing,
inoculation an have been kept





(i)forfeiture without compensation of animals, birds and things
dealt with in contravention of any provision of this Ordinance
or of any regulation made thereunder; (Amended, 17 of 1956, s. 2)

(j)duties and obligations of persons having animals or birds in
their possession or under their charge;

(k)prohibition or regulation of the import or export of cattle into or
out of the Colony or any part thereof;

(1)isolation of cases of disease in animals and birds and the
regulation thereof;

(m)appointment, establishment and maintenance of places for the
observation or examination of cattle either on arrival or prior to
export,

(n)control and supervision registration, licensing or otherwise of
depots, stables, pens, cattle-sheds, dairies and places for
keeping animals and birds; (Amended, 17 of 1956,s.4)

(o)regular inspection of all places where animals and birds are
kept;

(p)slaughtering or isolating or keeping under observation of any
animal or bird that may appear to be or may be reasonably
suspected of being or of having been in contact or in the same
herd or flock with animals or birds affected with disease, and
the disposal of the carcass thereof;

(q)declaring any place or area to be infected with disease, and
prohibiting or regulating the movements of animals, birds or
persons into, within or out of any such infected place or area,
and the removal of carcasses, fodder, litter, utensils, hurdles,
pens, dung or other things into, within or out of such infected
place or area;

(r)offences in the case of contravention of any such regulations
or any direction given by the Director under powers conferred
by this Ordinance and prescribing forfeiture in respect thereof
and penalties therefor: Provided that no penalty so prescribed
shall exceed a fine of two thousand
dollars; (Added, 20 of 1948, s. 4. Amended, 17 of 1956, ss. 2, 4; and
80 of 1970, s. 3)

(s)cleansing and disinfecting of any place which has been
occupied by any animal or bird suffering from epidemic,

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endemic, contagious or infectious disease.

(2) Regulations made under this section may provide that where a
person by whom an offence is committed is a corporation every director
or other officer concerned in the management of the corporation shall be
guilty of the like offence unless he proves that the offence was
committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all
such due diligence to prevent the commission





of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature
of his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances. (Added, 80
of 1970, s. 3)

4. (1) No person shall knowingly bring into the Colony any animal
or bird suffering from disease.

(2) When information is received that any disease exists amongst
any animals or birds at any place without the Colony, the Governor may
issue an prohibiting, eithing absolutely or

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conditionally, the importation either by land or by sea or the
transhipment in the Colony of any animals or birds from any such
place.

(3) Every order issued under this section shall be published in the
Gazette at the earliest opportunity but shall come into operation
immediately upon the making of the order.

(4) Any person who-

(a) contravenes any of the provisions of subsection (1); or

(b)contravenes any of the provisions of an order issued under
subsection (2),

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary convic-
tion to a fine of two thousand dollars. (Added, 4 of 1967, s. 4)

5. (1) Whenever it appears to the Governor, after such inquiry as he
may consider necessary, that any disease exists among animals or birds
in the Colony or in any part of the Colony, he may by notification in the
Gazette issue an order to regulate the movements of any animals and
birds within such areas as he may define in such order, and to prohibit
any animal or bird being taken into or removed from such area. Every
such area shall be deemed an infected place. (Amended, 20 of 1948, s. 4)

(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of an order
issued under subsection (1) shall be guilty of a offence and shall be
liable on summary conviction to a fine of -9.

dollars. (Added, 4 of 1967, s. 5)

COMPENSATION FOR ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED BY
ORDER
OF THE DIRECTOR

6. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and of any
regulation made thereunder, compensation shall be paid out of the
public revenue for any animal or bird slaughtered by order of the
Director under the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulation
made thereunder to the owner thereof

(a)where an animal slaughtered was affected with rinderpest or
swine fever, the compensation shall be one-half of its full
value immediately before it became so affected..





(b)where an animal slaughtered was affected with contagious
bovine pleuro-pneumonia, the compensation shall be
threefourths of its full value immediately before it became so
affected;

(c)where an animal slaughtered was affected with foot and mouth
disease, the compensation shall be its full value immediately
before it became so affected;

(d)where a bovine animal slaughtered was affected with
tuberculosis the compensation shall be such sum as may be
ordered by the Director or, if no such order is made

(i) one thousand five hundred dollars in the case of an
animal which, in the opinion of the senior veterinary officer,
was of or over two years of age at the time of slaughter;

(ii) seven hundred and fifty dollars in the case of an animal
which, in the opinion of the senior veterinary officer, was
under two years of age at the time of slaughter;

(e)where an animal or bird slaughtered was affected with any
disease except in cases otherwise specifically provided for in
this subsection, the compensation shall be such proportion of
its full value immediately before it became so affected as the
Governor in Council may decide after taking the advice of the
Director;

where an animal or bird slaughtered was not affected with any
kind of disease, the compensation shall be its full value
immediately before it was slaughtered.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) the full value of an animal or
bird shall be determined by the Director.

(3) The compensation payable under subsection (1) for an animal
slaughtered shall not exceed

(a) three hundred dollars in the case of a pig;

(b)one thousand five hundred dollars in the case of any animal
other than a pig.

(4) The compensation payable under subsection (1) for a bird
slaughtered shall not exceed thirty dollars.

(5) The Governor in Council may if he thinks fit order that the
compensation payable under subsection (1) shall be withheld, either
wholly or partially, in any case where, in his opinion, the owner or
person having charge of the animal or bird concerned has been guilty in
relation to such animal or bird of an offence against this Ordinance or
any regulation made thereunder or against any other enactment
regulating the importation of animals or birds into the Colony or the
control of animals or birds within





the Colony, and where any such order is made the compensation or that
part thereof which is ordered to be withheld shall not be paid.

(6) Unless otherwise ordered by the Governor in Council, no
compensation shall be paid under subsection (1) for any animal or bird
slaughtered which in the opinion of the senior veterinary officer shows
symptoms of disease before it has been in the Colony for the period of
incubation of the disease in question.

(7) The Governor in Council may by order define, for the purposes
of subsection (6), the period of incubation of any disease.

(Replaced, 47 of 1956, s. 2)

7. The Director may, notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance,
retain and reserve for observation or treatment any animal or bird liable
to be slaughtered under this Ordinance, but in every such case
compensation shall be payable as in the case of actual slaughter.

(Amended, 17 of 1956, s. 2)

8. The senior veterinary officer, or any person acting under his
direction, may seize any animal, bird or thing dealt with in contravention
of this Ordinance or of any regulation thereunder, and may order the
forfeiture of such animal, bird or thing, and the same shall thereupon be
destroyed, sold or otherwise disposed of as the senior veterinary officer
may direct.

(Amended, 17 of 1956, ss. 2 and 7)

9. No compensation shall be paid in respect of any animal, bird or
thing forfeited under this Ordinance or any regulation thereunder and
such forfeiture shall not prejudice or avoid any prosecution for breach
of this Ordinance or any regulation.

(Amended, 17 of 1956, s. 2)

PROTECTION AND SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC AT PLACES
WHERE
WILD ANIMALS AND WILD BIRDS ARE EXHIBITED.

9A. (1) Any person who intends to exhibit any wild animal or wild
bird on premises to which the public are to be admitted shall, prior to the
exhibition of the wild animal or wild bird, give notice in writing to the
Director of his intention to exhibit the wild animal or wild bird, and such
notice shall specify the kind of wild animal or wild bird which he intends
to exhibit and the premises on which he intends to exhibit the wild
animal or wild bird.

(2) Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of
subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on 'M

summary conviction to a fine of two thousand
dollars

(Added, 4 of 1967, s. 6)





9B. (1) Where a person intends to exhibit any wild animal or wild
bird, the Director may cause a notice in accordance with subsection (3)
to be served on such person or, if such person cannot be found, on the
owner or occupier of the premises on which it is intended to exhibit the
wild animal or wild bird, requiring the person on whom the notice is
served, prior to the exhibition of the wild animal or wild bird, to take such
steps and do such things to the satisfaction of the Director for the
protection and safety of the public as may be specified in the notice.

(2) Where a person is exhibiting a wild animal or wild bird, the
Director may cause a notice in accordance with subsection (3) to be
served on such person or, if such person cannot be found, on the owner
or occupier of the premises on which the wild animal or wild bird is being
exhibited, requiring the person on whom the notice is served

(a)within the period specified in the notice, to take such steps and
do such things to the satisfaction of the Director for the
protection and safety of the public as may be specified in the
notice; and

(b)if the Director thinks fit, to cease exhibiting the wild animal or
wild bird, until such steps are taken or such things done as may
be specified under paragraph (a).

(3) Any notice served under subsection (1) or (2) shall be in the
form specified in the Schedule, and such notice may be served, whether
or not the Director has received a notice required to be given under
section 9A.

(4) Any person who fails to comply with any of the requirements of
a notice served on him by the Director under subsection (1) or (2) shall
be guilty of offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine
of two thousand dollars.

(Added, 4 of 1967, s. 6)

PENALTIES.

10. (1) [Deleted, 4 of 1967, s. 7]

(2) Any licence or permit issued under any regulation made under
this Ordinance shall be liable to cancellation by the Director for breach
of any regulation to which the holder of such licence is subject, or for
breach of any condition of such licence or permit. (Amended, 17 of
1956, s. 2)

APPEAL TO GOVERNOR IN
COUNCIL.

11. (1) Whenever any person is dissatisfied with the exercise of the
discretion of the Director or of any person to whom discretionary power
is given under this Ordinance in respect of any act, matter or thing
which is by this Ordinance made subject to the exercise of the discretion
of such authority, or with any action or decision of the Director or of
any such person either as to the carrying out of or the meaning of any of
the provisions of this





Ordinance, or whenever any of the provisions of this Ordinance
are, owing to special conditions, undesirable, the person so dis-
satisfied may, unless proceedings have already been taken before
a magistrate in relation thereto, appeal to the Governor in Council,
who, if in his opinion the exercise of such discretion or such action
or decision requires modification, revocation or setting aside, or
such special conditions exist as render any such provision undesir-
able, may make such order in respect thereof as may be just.
(Amended, 17 of 1956, s. 2)

(2) The grounds of such appeal shall be concisely stated in
writing, and the appellant may, if he so desires, be present at the
hearing of such appeal and be heard in its support either by
himself or by his representative, and the Governor in Council shall
thereafter determine the matter in the absence of, and without
further reference to, the Director. (Amended, 17 of 1956, s. 2)
(Added, 38 of 1936, s. 2)

12. (1) In any appeal under the provisions of section 11 the
Governor in Council may at any time in his discretion direct a
case to be stated for the opinion of the Full Court on any question
of law involved in any appeal submitted to him. The terms of
such case shall be agreed upon by the parties concerned, or in the
event of their failure to agree shall be settled by the Full Court.
The Full Court shall hear and determine the question of law
arising on any case stated as aforesaid, and shall remit the matter
to the Governor in Council who shall give effect by order to the
finding of the court. The costs of such hearing shall be in the
discretion of the court.

(2) Any party to the appeal shall be entitled to be heard by
counsel on the hearing of any case so stated.

(3) No proceedings by way of mandamus, injunction, pro-
hibition or other order shall be taken against the Governor in
Council in respect of anything arising out of this section.

(4) The Clerk of Councils shall give the appellant seven days'
notice of the hearing of the appeal, and shall at the same time
furnish the appellant with a copy of the evidence and documents
submitted by the respondent for the consideration of the Governor
in Council:
Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to
prevent any person from applying to the Supreme Court for a
mandamus, injunction, prohibition or other order, should he elect
so to do instead of appealing to the Governor in Council under
section 11.
(Added, 38 of 1936, s. 2)

13. Every order of the Governor in Council on any appeal
shall be final and may be enforced by the Supreme Court as if
it had been an order of that court.
(Added, 38 of 1936, s. 2)





LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

14. No matter or thing done by the Director or by any member or
officer of the Agriculture and Fisheries Department or by any person
whatsoever acting under the direction of the Director shall, if it was
done bona fide for the purpose of executing this Ordinance, subject
them or any of them personally to any action, liability, claim or demand
whatsoever: (Amended, 17 of 1956, ss. 2 and 9, and G.N. 1006160)

Provided that nothing herein contained shall exempt any person
from any proceeding by way of mandamus, injunction, prohibition or
other order unless it is expressly so enacted.

MISCELLANEOUS.

15. For any of the purposes of this Ordinance or any regulations
made thereunder or for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the
provisions of this Ordinance or of any such regulations or the terms or
conditions of any licence or registration granted or made thereunder are
being or have been complied with, the Director, the senior veterinary
officer and any veterinary officer, assistant veterinary officer, health
officer or inspector may, at any time during the hours of daylight, enter
and, where necessary, in the presence of a police officer, break into any
premises other than premises, or any part of any premises, used
exclusively as a dwelling

house. (Added, 25 of 1960, s. 3)

16. Any person who obstructs or resists the Director, the
senior veterinary officer, any veterinary officer, assistant veterinary
officer, health officer or inspector in the exercise of any power con-
ferred upon him by this Ordinance or any regulations made there-
under shall be guilty of a an offence and shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment
for three months. (Added, 25 of 1960, s. 3)

17. The Governor may appoint any public officers to be in-
spectors for the purposes of this Ordinance and the regulations
made thereunder. (Added, 25 of 1960, s. 3)

18. The Governor may from time to time, by order in the
Gazette, amend the Schedule. (Added, 4 of 1967, s. 8)

SCHEDULE. [s. 9B(3).]

FORM

PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS)
ORDINANCE.
(Cap. 139).
Public Safety Notice.

To: (person who intends to exhibit a wild animal or wild bird, or who is exhibiting a
wild animal or wild bird, or owner or occupier of the premises on which it is
intended to exhibit a wild animal or wild bird, or on which a wild animal or wild
bird is being exhibited, as the case may be).





1.Take notice that under section 9B of the Public Health (Animals and Birds)
Ordinance the Director of Agriculture and Fisheries having been informed that
you intend to exhibit a wild animal (or a wild bird) being

(describe kind of wild animal or
wild bird) at (describe
the premises) does hereby require you prior to the exhibition of such wild
animal (or wild bird) (or within days)
to (specify steps
to be taken or things to be done) to the satisfaction of the Director. (And
the Director does hereby require you to cease the exhibition of such wild
animal (or such wild bird) until such steps have been taken and such things
have been done).

2.If you make default in complying with the requirements of this notice you will
be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.

Dated the day of 19

(Signed) .......................

Director of Agriculture

and Fisheries.
(Added, 4 of 1967. s. 9)
Originally 16 of 1935. (Cap. 139, 1950.) G.N. 129/36. 38 of 1936. 20 of 1948. G.N.A. 143/50. 22 of 1950. 24 of 1950. 17 of 1956. 47 of 1956. G.N. 1006/60. 25 of 1960. 4 of 1967. 80 of 1970. Short title. Interpretation. (Cap. 141.) Power to make regulations. Restrictions on import of animals and birds. Movements of animals and birds with regard to infected areas. Compensation for animals or birds slaughtered by order of the Director. Retention for observation by order of the Director. Seizure of animals for contravention of regulations. No compensation in case of forfeiture. Notice of intention to exhibit a wild animal or wild bird. Power of Director to require work done. Schedule. Penalties. Appeal to Governor in Council against decision of any person entrusted with power under this Ordinance. Governor in Council empowered in any appeal to state case for the opinion of Full Court on question of law. Order of Governor in Council enforced by the Court. Limitation of liability of member of Agriculture and Fisheries Department, etc. Powers of entry. Obstruction, etc. Appointment of inspectors. Amendment of Schedule.

Originally 16 of 1935. (Cap. 139, 1950.) G.N. 129/36. 38 of 1936. 20 of 1948. G.N.A. 143/50. 22 of 1950. 24 of 1950. 17 of 1956. 47 of 1956. G.N. 1006/60. 25 of 1960. 4 of 1967. 80 of 1970. Short title. Interpretation. (Cap. 141.) Power to make regulations. Restrictions on import of animals and birds. Movements of animals and birds with regard to infected areas. Compensation for animals or birds slaughtered by order of the Director. Retention for observation by order of the Director. Seizure of animals for contravention of regulations. No compensation in case of forfeiture. Notice of intention to exhibit a wild animal or wild bird. Power of Director to require work done. Schedule. Penalties. Appeal to Governor in Council against decision of any person entrusted with power under this Ordinance. Governor in Council empowered in any appeal to state case for the opinion of Full Court on question of law. Order of Governor in Council enforced by the Court. Limitation of liability of member of Agriculture and Fisheries Department, etc. Powers of entry. Obstruction, etc. Appointment of inspectors. Amendment of Schedule.

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