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secure compliance with Article 9 [Precautions to be adopted 

 with Respect to Milk, etc.) and Article 10 [Detention and 

 Isolation of Suspected Animals). 



Notification of Disease by Veterinary Surgeons. 



3. — (1) A veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner 

 who in his private practice is employed to examine any 

 animal, and is of opinion that the animal, if a cow, is suffer- 

 ing from tuberculosis of the udder, indurated udder, or 

 other chronic disease of the udder, or, if a bovine animal, 

 is suffering from tuberculosis with emaciation, shall with 

 all practicable speed give notice of the existence or sus- 

 pected existence of such disease to an Inspector of the 

 Local Authority, who shall transmit the information to the 

 Local Authority, who, if not themselves the Sanitary 

 Authoritv, shall inform that Authority. 



(2) A veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner who 

 under and in accordance with this Article gives notice of 

 the existence or suspected existence of disease to an 

 Inspector of the Local Authority shall be entitled to receive 

 from the Local Authority a fee of two shillings and sixpence 

 for each notification. 



(3) Where two or more animals are examined by a 

 veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner on the same 

 premises and at the same time, and are found to be diseased, 

 one fee only shall be payable to him under this Article in 

 respect of the notification of the existence or suspected 

 existence of disease in such animals. 



Inspection and Examination of Animals. 



4. — (1) Where a Local Authority, by reason of informa- 

 tion received under the preceding Articles or otherwise, 

 have reasonable ground for supposing that on any premises 

 in their District there is a cow which is suffering from 

 chronic disease of the udder or giving tuberculous milk, or 

 a bovine animal which is suffering from tuberculosis with 

 emaciation, the Local Authority shall with all practicable 

 speed cause such veterinary examination of the bovine 

 animals on such premises to be made by a Veterinary 

 Inspector as in the opinion of the Local Authority is 

 necessary to ascertain whether any cow thereon is suffering 

 from tuberculosis of the udder or giving tuberculous milk, 



