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DOGS. 



Regulations made by the Governor in Executive Council 

 under section 18 of the Dogs Ordinance, 1918, 



RABIES. 



1. Evei-y person having in his possession or under his charge any 

 dog affected with or suspected of being infected with Rabies shall 

 forthwith give notice of the fact to the member of the Constabulary 

 Force in charge of tlie nearest Constabulary Station. 



Such member of the Force shall innnediately transmit the 

 information to the Government Veterinary Surgeon or to such other 

 person as the Governor may appoint as an Inspector of Dogs for the 

 purposes of these regulations. 



Every person failing to give such notice and every Oflficer failing to 

 transmit information in manner prescribed, shall be guilty of an oft'ence 

 against these regulations and shall be liable on conviction to a penalty 

 not exceeding twenty shillings and in default of payment to imprisonment 

 with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding fourteen days. 



2. The Government Veterinary Surgeon or any Inspector of Dogs 

 appointed as aforesaid on receiving any information of the supposed 

 existence of Rabies shall proceed with all practicable speed to the place 

 where such disease exists or is supposed to exist and may there order 

 any dog in his opinion affected with Rabies to be destroyed or to be 

 dealt with as he may direct. Such Government Veterinary Surgeon or 

 any Inspector of Dogs appointed as aforesaid may also direct to be 

 isolated any dogs which in his opinion may have been exposed 

 to infection. 



IMPORTATION. 



3. No dog shall be landed in the Colony from a country specified in 

 any Proclamation issued under section 13 of the said Ordinance except 

 on a permit signed by the Government Veterinary Surgeon. 



4. — (a) All dogs landed as provided in Regulation 3 shall be forthwith 

 taken to the Pound Detention Station for Animals, St. Joseph Road, 

 Port-of-Spain, (hereafter in these Regulations called the Dog Detention 

 Station, and shall be detained there for a period of six months. 



If at the end of that period, or of such further period as is in his 

 opinion necessary to allow him to form an opinion, the Government 

 Veterinary Surgeon certifies that a dog is free from contagious disease, 

 it may be removed from the station by the owner or his agent. But if 

 the owner of a dog wishes to convey it away from the Colony before the 

 period of detention has expired, he may apply to the Government 

 Veterinary Surgeon for permission to do so, and the Government ' 

 Veterinary Surgeon shall grant such permission, and the detention 

 officers or attendants shall thereupon convey the dog and hand it over 

 to the person authorized Ijy the Government Veterinary Surgeon to 

 receive it on board such vessel to be conveyed away from the Colony. 



