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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO BULLETIN. [XIX. 3. 



Powers of 



apprehension, 



&c. 



General 

 powers of 

 Government 

 Veterinarj' 

 Surgeon. 



(2.) Where a person is seen or found committing or is reasonably 

 suspected of being engaged in committing an offence against this 

 Ordinance or any regulation or Order of the Governor in Executive 

 Council njade thereunder, any Constable may without warrant stop and 

 detain him, and if his name and address are not known to the Constable 

 and he fails to give them to the satisfaction of the Constable, such 

 Constable may, without warrant, apprehend him, and may, whether so 

 stopping or detaining or apprehending tlie person or not, stop, detain 

 and examine any animal, vehicle, boat or thing to which the offence or 

 suspected offence relates, and require the same to be forthwith taken 

 back to or into any place or district wherefrom or whereout it was 

 unlawfullj' removed, and execute and enforce that requisition. 



(o.) If any person obstructs or impedes a Constable in the execution 

 of this Ordinance or of any regulation or Order of the Governor in 

 Executive Council thereunder, or assists in any such obstructing or 

 imiDeding, the Constable may without warrant apprehend the offender. 



(4.) A person apprehended under this section shall be taken with all 

 practicable speed before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law. 



(5.) The foregoing provisions of this section respecting Constables 

 extend and apply to any person called by them to their assistance. 



16- — (I.) The Government Veterinary Surgeon may at any time enter 

 any land or shed to which this Ordinance applies or other building or 

 place wherein he has reasonable grounds for supposing : — 



(«) that disease exists or has within fifty-six days existed ; or 



(b) that the carcase of a diseased or suspected animal is or has been 

 kept, or has been buried, destroyed or otherwise disposed 

 of ; or 



(<••) that there is to be found any pen, place, vehicle or thing in 

 respect whereof any person has on any occasion failed to 

 comply with the provisions of this Ordinance, or of a regulation 

 or Order of the Governor in Executive Council under tliis 

 Ordinance ; or 



(d.) that this Ordinance or a regulation or Order of the Governor 

 in Executive Council under this Ordinance has not been or is 

 not being complied with. 



(2.) The Government Vetcrinai-y Sm-geon may at anj^ time enter any 

 pen, vehicle, vessel or boat in which or in respect whereof he has 

 reasonable grounds for supposing that this Ordinance or a regulation or 

 Order of the Governor in Executive Council under this Ordinance has 

 not been or is not being complied with. 



(3.) The Government Veterinary Surgeon entering as hereinbefore 

 by this section autliorised shall if required by the owner or occupier or 

 person in charge of tlie land, building, place, pen, vehicle, vessel or 

 boat, state in writing his reasons for entering. 



