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(5) The Local Authority may make such Regulations as they think 

 fit for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Article. 



Occupiers to give Facilities for Cleansing. 



10. (1) Where the power of causing any place, thing, or vehicle to 

 be cleansed and disinfected under this Order is exercised by a Local 

 Authority, the owner and occupier and person in charge of the place, 

 thing, or vehicle shall give all reasonable facilities for that purpose. 



(2) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this Article 

 shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the Act of 1894. 



Regulations of Local Authority as to Movement of Animals, 

 Fodder, etc. 



11. A Local Authority may make such Regulations as they think fit 

 for the following purposes, or any of them : 



(a) For prohibiting or regulating the movement of any diseased or 



suspected animal into or out of any shed, stable, building, field, or 



other place, or any part thereof ; 



(6) For prohibiting or regulating the movement of any animal into 

 or out of any shed, stable, building, field, or other place, or any 

 part thereof, in which there is or has been any diseased or 

 suspected animal ; and 



(c) For regulating the removal out of any shed, stable, building, 

 field, or other place of any fodder, litter, or other thing that has 

 been in contact with or used for or about any diseased or suspected 

 animal ; 



but nothing in any such Regulation shall authorise movement in 

 contravention of any provision of any Order of the Board for the time 

 being in force ; and a Regulation under paragraph (6) of this Article 

 shall operate so long only as any animal which in the judgment of the 

 Local Authority is diseased or suspected remains in the shed, stable, 

 building, field, or other place to which the Regulation refers, and, in case 

 of a shed, stable, building, or other like place, until the same has been 

 cleansed and disinfected in accordance with this Order. 



Slaughter hi Anthrax and Compensation. 



12. (1) A Local Authority may if they think fit cause to be 

 slaughtered 



(a) Any animal affected with anthrax or suspected of being so 

 affected ; and 



(6) Any animal being or having been in the same field, shed, or other 

 place, or in the same herd or flock or otherwise in contact with 

 animals affected with anthrax, or being or having been in the 

 opinion of the Local Authority in any way exposed to the infection 

 of anthrax. 



(2) The slaughter of animals under this Article shall be conducted 

 in such mode as will so far as possible prevent effusion of blood. 



