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Sheep Scab. 



[FEB., 



sheep into their district. In connection with Regulations made 

 under the Sheep Scab Order of 1898, all of which are revoked 

 by Order No. 6879, the Board have received repeated repre- 

 sentations that requirements whereby the supervision of the 

 dipping of sheep to be moved was imposed upon Officers of the 

 Local Authority from which the sheep were to be moved, have 

 had the effect in some districts of detaching such Officers from 

 their more legitimate business of dealing with disease in their 

 own district. Further, since the owners of the sheep to be 

 moved have but little direct interest in securing the efficient 

 performance of the operation in question, the dipping thus 

 prescribed has, there is good reason to believe, been carried out 

 in some cases in an almost perfunctory manner. For this reason 

 and in view of the policy which underlies the Sheep Scab 

 (Regulation of Movement) Order the Articles dealing with the 

 making of Regulations by Local Authorities have been so 

 framed as to limit the power of the receiving Local Authority 

 as regards dipping of sheep brought into their district, to the 

 treatment and subsequent movement of such animals after their 

 arrival in their district. At the same time, however, Local 

 Authorities will, by the operation of the three new Orders, 

 obtain additional security against the movement of sheep into 

 their district which have been exposed to the risk of infection 

 either by reason of association with sheep on infected premises 

 or from being kept in districts in which disease is known to be 

 prevalent. 



Sheep Scab (Compulsory Dipping Areas) Order of 1905 



(No. 6880). 



12. This Order is framed with a view to the adoption of 

 special precautions in localities where Sheep Scab is known 

 or suspected to be prevalent, and aims at regulating the move • 

 ment of sheep out of areas to which its provisions may be 

 applied by subsequent Order of the Board, and at , securing 

 that at suitable periods all sheep within such areas shall be 

 •effectually dipped irrespective of the presence or otherwise of 

 disease on any particular holding. It is intended that the limits 

 of such an area shall be prescribed only after careful investigation 

 in the particular locality, in connection with which enquiries 



