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right to grant by its own licence any market, fair, sale, or exhibition 

 of fat or store swine, when after enquiry they consider exceptional 

 circumstances render it necessary. 



At all markets or fairs licensed under this Order, a veterinary 

 inspector must attend, and ' fit persons ' may be appointed by the 

 local authority to attend for the purpose of granting movement 

 licences. 



At any sale licensed under the Order, the same ' fit person ' appointed 

 by the local authority may attend by request, and grant movement 

 licences on behalf of the local authority. 



It is an ofience against the Act to — 



1. Hold a market, fair, sale, etc., in contravention of this Order, or 



the condition of the licence. 



2. For not marking, or for obliterating the mark on a pig sent for 



sale. 



3. Moving a pig in contravention of the Order or movement licence. 



4. Failing to slaughter a pig within the prescribed time. 



5. Exposing for sale or exhibiting at any fair or sale in Great Britain 



a pig that has once been under licence and exposed for sale at 

 a market or fair. 



6. Failing to cleanse or disinfect any place used as a market, fair, or 



sale-yard. 



It will be observed that in this Order the object is to regulate sales, 

 markets, and fairs in a district which is not a swine fever infected area. 



In the following Order, known as the Swine Fever {Infected Areas) 

 Order of 1902, the object is to regulate movements in an infected area 

 consistent with safety. 



A local authority may permit under licence the movement of swine 

 along, over, or across, a highway or thoroughfare in an infected area, 

 but not in an infected place. 



Without such hoenoe it is illegal to move swine as above, even in a 

 vehicle or not. 



A licence only lasts four days, and can only be granted if the pro- 

 posed movement is necessary or expedient ; the swine are then to be 

 moved by the nearest available route and without delay. 



A licence for breeding purposes may also be granted under the same 

 restrictions and with power to return, provided that the premises to be 

 visited are not outside an infected area. 



A licence may be granted for the movement of swine from a station, 

 wharf, or other premises in an infected area to premises in an infected 

 area, but without any movement along, across, or over a highway or 

 thoroughfare. They may also be moved under Hcence from a non- 

 infected area into an infected area. 



On the completion of movement of aU swine under this Order, the 



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