SECTION VII. 



SANITARY LAW. 

 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE FOLLOWING TEXT 



B. of A. . . Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (now the Ministry of 



Agriculture and Fisheries). 

 D.A.A. . . Diseases of Animals Acts. 

 F.A.Q.S. . . Foreign Animals Quarantine Station. 

 I.B.A. . . Inspector of the Board (Ministry) of Agriculture and 



Fisheries. 



I.L.A. . . Inspector of the Local Authority. 

 L.A. . . . Local Authority. 

 L.G.B. . . Local Government Board. 

 M.O.H. . . Medical Officer of Health. 

 P.C. . . . Police Constable. 

 S.I. . . . Sanitary Inspector. 

 V.I. . . . Veterinary Inspector. 

 V.I.B.A. . . Veterinary Inspector of the Board (Ministry) of Agriculture 



and Fisheries. 



V.I. L.A. . . Veterinary Inspector of the Local Authority. 

 V.S. . . . Veterinary Surgeon. 



LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 



In the following pages are given accounts of the more important of the 

 laws and regulations with which the work of the veterinary practitioner or 

 veterinary inspector is connected. It must be clearly understood that in no 

 case is there given an exact rendering of an Act, Order or Regulation. What 

 are thought to be the leading features have been abstracted, in some cases more 

 fully than in others, mainly for the convenience of students preparing for 

 examinations. 



THE DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT, 1894, 1896, 1903, 1909 AND 1910. 



The Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, consolidates and amends the previous 

 Acts of 1878 to 1893. Later Acts are the Act of 1896 which amends certain 

 portions of the 1894 Act relative to the landing of foreign animals, the Act of 

 1903 concerning Sheep-Scab, the 1909 Act which gives authority for the 

 payment of fees to veterinary surgeons for the notification of scheduled diseases, 

 and the 1910 Act which deals with the exportation of unfit horses. In addition 

 to these Diseases of Animals Acts there are certain other Acts such as the 

 Dogs Act, the Poultry Act, the Protection of Animals Act and others. There 

 are also many Orders made by the Board (Ministry) of Agriculture. 



The Diseases of Animals Acts, &c., are administered by or under the super- 

 vision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, which has great powers 

 conferred upon it for the purpose of controlling animal diseases. For Ireland 

 the powers conferred by these Acts are vested in the Department of Agriculture 

 and Technical Instruction, which acts as the central authority for that country. 



In the Act of 1894 certain diseases are scheduled as infectious diseases, and 

 by the Act the Ministry has power to add to this list such other diseases as it 

 may think advisable. At the present time the following are listed : Anthrax, 



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