SANITARY LAW 375 



GENERAL REGULATIONS THAT APPLY TO 

 SCHEDULED DISEASES. 



The following Regulations have a general application to all Scheduled 

 Diseases : 



Notification of Disease or Suspected Disease. This must always be made 

 by the owner of the animal, or the occupier or person in charge, and by the 

 V.S. in attendance, to the I.L.A. or P.C. of the district. Notice must be given 

 \\ithout undue delay. 



Presumption of Knoivledge of Disease. A person required to give notice 

 if charged with failure to carry out his obligation shall be presumed to have 

 known of the existence of the 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. 



Separation of Diseased Animals. Every person having a diseased animal 

 shall, as far as practicable, keep it separate from animals not so diseased. 



Facilities and Assistance to be given for Inspection, Cleansing and 

 Disinfection. Persons in charge of diseased animals are required to give every 

 facility for the execution of the above, and must not obstruct or in any way 

 hinder inspectors or other officers in doing their duty. 



Prohibition of Exposure of Diseased Animals. It is unlawful to expose 

 a diseased or suspected animal in a market, sale-yard, fair, or other public or 

 private place where such animals are commonly exposed for sale; to place an 

 affected animal in a lair or other place adjacent to or connected with a market, 

 sale-yard, &c., or where such animals are commonly exposed for sale; to send 

 a diseased animal on a railway, or on any canal, inland navigation or coasting 

 vessel ; or to allow one on a highway or thoroughfare, or on any common or 

 uninclosed land or in any insufficiently fenced field ; or to graze one on the sides 

 of a highway; or to stray on a highway or thoroughfare or on the sides 

 thereof, &c. 



Digging up Carcases. No person may dig up the carcase of an " animal " 

 that has been buried, without permission from the B. of A. 



Veterinary Inquiry by Local Authority. A L.A. on receiving information 

 of the existence, or supposed existence, of disease must cause an inquiry to 

 be made into the correctness of the report, with the assistance and advice of 

 a veterinary inspector or veterinary surgeon. An exception to this among 

 the Scheduled Diseases is Swine Fever. 



ANIMALS (NOTIFICATION OF DISEASE) ORDER, 1919. 



Application of Order. The diseases to which this Order applies are: 

 cattle plague, contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, foot-and-mouth disease, 

 sheep-pox, sheep-scab, swine-fever, anthrax, epizootic lymphangitis, rabies, 

 glanders and farcy, and sarcoptic and psoroptic mange of horses, asses and mules. 



Notification of Disease. A veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner 

 who in his private practice is employed to examine any head of cattle, or any 

 sheep, goat, swine, horse, ass, mule, dog or cat, or the carcase of any such 

 animal, and is of opinion that the animal is diseased, or was diseased when 

 it died or was slaughtered, or suspects the existence of disease therein, shall 

 with all practical speed give notice of the existence, or suspected existence, 

 of disease to an I.L.A., and also, except where the disease is anthrax, sheep- 

 scab, glanders or farcy, or psoroptic or sarcoptic mange of horses, asses or 

 mules, to a constable of the police force for the police area in which the 

 animal or carcase is, or was, at the time of its death, who shall transmit the 

 information by telegram to the B. of A. 



An I.L.A., on receipt of notice under this Order, shall report the existence, 

 or suspected existence, of disease to the L.A., and if the disease is anthrax, 

 glanders or farcy, or rabies, also to the M.O.H. of the Sanitary District in 

 which the animal or carcase is, or was, at the time of its death. 



