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Sheep Scab. 



[FEB., 



precisely in such circumstances that the eradication of Sheep 

 Scab is most difficult, and that the intervention of the Central 

 Authority appears to be required. 



Sheep Scab (Regulation of Movement) Order of 1905 



(No. 6881). 



16. This Order provides for the general regulation of the 

 movement of sheep out of any district to which its provisions 

 may be applied by subsequent Order of the Board, and the 

 intention is to apply its provisions to those groups of Counties 

 or parts thereof in which Sheep Scab has for long been known 

 to be prevalent, or as to which experience has shown that pre- 

 cautionary measures are necessary in the interests of other 

 districts. It has been represented to the Board that where such 

 general restrictions, e.g., on the movement of sheep from Scotland 

 to England, are admittedly desirable, the hardships inseparable 

 from any interference with private business would be minimised 

 if the necessary restrictions were imposed by the Central 

 Authority and made generally applicable to all such movement. 



17. In framing this Order the Board have adopted the view 

 that as a general rule precautionary dipping is carried out in a 

 more satisfactory manner where the necessary supervision is 

 undertaken by the receiving Local Authority, whose interest 

 in the matter is obviously greater than that of the transmitting 

 Local Authority. The Order, therefore, provides that where 

 sheep are to be moved direct to private premises outside the 

 scheduled district, it shall be a condition of the licence that they 

 be detained and isolated on such premises for a period of fifty- 

 six days or until they have been effectually dipped in the 

 presence and to the satisfaction of an Inspector of the Local 

 Authority in whose district the premises are situated. Provision 

 is, however, made whereby a Local Authority of a district, not 

 included in the scheduled district, may license special sales to 

 which sheep may be moved from a scheduled district if accom- 

 panied by a movement licence issued on a declaration that the 

 sheep have previously been dipped, but sheep can only be moved 

 from such authorised market with a further licence and subject 

 to the above requirement as to detention and isolation until 

 dipped. 



