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(xxx.) for preseribimg and regulating the muzzling of dogs, and the 

 keeping of dogs under control ; 



(xsxi.) for prescribing and regulating the seizure, detention, and 

 disposal (including slaughter) of stray dogs and of dogs not 

 muzzled, and of dogs not being kept under control, and the 

 recovery from the owners of dogs of the expenses incurred in 

 respect of their detention ; 



(xxxil.) for prescribing and regulating the payment and recovery of 

 expenses in respect of animals ; 



(xxxiii.) for prescribing and regulating the form and mode of service 

 or delivery of notices and other instruments ; 



(xxxiv.) for authorising a local authority to make regulations for any 

 of the purposes of this Act or of an order of the Board subject 

 to such conditions, if any, as the Board, for the purpose of 

 securing uniformity and the due execution of the provisions 

 of this Act, think fit to prescribe ; 



(xxxv.) for extending, for all or any of the purposes of this Act, 

 the definition of disease in this Act, so that the same shall 

 for those purposes, or any of them, comprise any disease 

 of animals in addition to the diseases mentioned in this 

 Act; 



(xxxvi.) for extending, for all or any of the purposes of this Act, the 

 definition of animals in this Act, so that the same shall for 

 those purposes or any of them comprise any kind of four- 

 footed beasts, in addition to the animals mentioned in this 

 Act ; and 



(xxxvii.) generally, for the better execution of this Act, or for 

 the purpose of in any manner preventing the spreading o 



In addition to these there are thirteen headings under 

 Section 30 on which Orders may be made for the Regulation 

 of Ports. We reproduce this section, and particularly refer 

 to the immense, almost arbitrary, powers conferred on the 

 Board (and rightly so), especially in paragraph 13. 



Regulation of Ports. 



30.— (1) The Board of Agriculture may make such orders as they 

 think fit, subject and according to the provisions of this Act, for the 

 following purposes, or any of them : — 



(i.) for prescribing the ports at which alone foreign animals may be 



landed ; 

 (ii.) for defining the limits of ports for the purposes cf this Act ; 



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