642 VETEEINAEY HYGIENE 



the destruction or detention of the same or their delivery to the 

 owner. 



(There is nothing in this chapter to show how the Principal Officer of 

 Customs arrives at the conclusion that the animals are diseased. 

 Presumably there is a Veterinary Inspector for the Port, but he does 

 not appear in the order.) 



The Channel Islands Animals Order of 1896. 



This permits animals from the Channel Islands to be landed at any 

 part of a port, that may be for the time specified as a Landing-Place 

 for Channel Islands animals, without these animals being subject to 

 slaughter or quarantiae. 



Eestrictions are placed on the vessel not having carried foreign 

 animals for 21 days previously, or not having been for 21 days 

 previously in a port of a scheduled country ; whOe the animals them- 

 selves must not while on board have been in contact with any animal 

 carried from any country outside the United Kingdom, Channel 

 Islands, or Isle of Man. 



To insure these regulations being observed, no animals can be 

 landed until the owner of the vessel has entered into a bond with the 

 State, in a sum of one thousand pounds ; and until the master of the 

 vessel has made a declaration that all the animals are properly im- 

 ported according to the above provisions. 



On landing a twelve hours' detention is required, at the end of 

 which time the animals are inspected by an officer of the Board ; if 

 found free from disease they may be moved from the landing-place, 

 and they then no longer constitute foreign animals. 



If cattle plague or foot and mouth disease is found to exist, all the 

 animals are to be destroyed. If any disease other than cattle plague 

 or foot and mouth disease is found, the Inspector shall cause all 

 animals of the same kind as the diseased animal, which were brought 

 in the same vessel, to be destroyed. 



Power is given the Inspector to detain for any period he thinks 

 proper any animal landed under this Order, if he suspects it to be 

 diseased, or that it may introduce disease. 



No animal, carcases, fodder, litter, dung, or manure shall be removed 

 from a landing-place, lair, or other place except by permission of an 

 Inspector of the Board. If an Inspector of the Board is of opinion 

 that any such animal or thing may introduce disease it shall be 

 destroyed, or otherwise dealt with. 



Fittings, pens, hurdles, utensils, etc., cannot be landed until cleansed 

 and disinfected, and then only by permission ; while the Inspector 

 may cause them to be destroyed if he considers they may introduce 

 disease. 



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