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Local Authority to enforce Order 



10. The provisions of this Order, except where it is otherwise 

 provided, shall be executed and enforced by the Local Authority. 



Weekly Returns of Epizootic Lymphangitis 



11. When an Inspector of a Local Authority finds epizootic 

 lymphangitis in his district, he shall forthwith make a return thereof 

 to the Local Authority and to the Department, on a form provided 

 by the Department, with all particulars therein required, and shall 

 continue to so make a return thereof on the Saturday of every week 

 until the disease has ceased. 



Exemption of Army Feteritiary Department and Veterinary Colleges 



12. Nothing in this Order applies to horses, asses, or mules in 

 stables of military barracks or camps, if the horses, asses, or mules 

 are under the care and supervision of the Army Veterinary 

 Department, or to horses, asses, or mules in stables of any Veterinary 

 College affiliated to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons : 

 Provided that nothing in this Article shall be deemed to apply to 

 the carcase of any horse, ass, or mule, nor to exempt a Local 

 Authority from any obligation imposed on them in regard to the 

 disposal of carcases. 



Offences 



13. (i) If a horse, ass, or mule, or carcase of a horse, ass, or 

 mule, or other thing is moved in contravention of this Order, or of 

 any Regulation made under this Order, or of a Notice given under 

 this Order, the owner of the horse, ass, or mule, carcase, or thing, and 

 the person for the time being in charge thereof, and the person 

 causing, directing, or permitting the movement, and the consignee or 

 other person receiving or keeping it knowing it to have been moved 

 in contravention as aforesaid, and the occupier of the place from which 

 the horse, ass, or mule, carcase, or thing is moved, shall, each accord- 

 ing to and in respect of his own acts and defaults, be deemed guilty 

 of an offence against the Act of 1894. 



(2) If anything is omitted to be done as regards cleansing or 

 disinfection in contravention of this Order, the owner and the lessee 

 and the occupier and the person in charge of any place or thing in 

 or in respect of which the same is omitted, shall, each according to 

 and in respect of his own acts and defaults, be deemed guilty of an 

 offence against the Act of 1894. 



