Movement of Animals Regulations. 371 



" I am accordingly to request that if any Regulations of your Local Authority 

 under one or more of these four Orders are at present in force of which copies have 

 not been sent to the Railway Companies concerned, and to the Clearing House, 

 this omission should at once be rectified, and that you will give such instructions as 

 will ensure that copies of any future Regulations will be sent so soon as they are 

 made. 



" The Board attach much importance to the proper fulfilment whenever occasion 

 arises, of the requirements of the Articles above-mentioned, and also to that of 

 Article 28 (3) of the Animals (Transit and General) Order of 1895, which requires 

 that a Local Authority shall forthwith send to the Board a copy of every Order or 

 Regulation made by that Local Authority under any Order of the Board. The 

 Board have experienced inconvenience in certain instances where a Local Authority 

 has not promptly sent such copy or has failed altogether to comply with that Article, 

 and I am to take the present opportunity of stating that the Board would be much 

 obliged if two copies, instead of one copy, were sent to them under that Article, of 

 any existing Regulation which has not already been communicated to the Board, and 

 also of any future Regulation that may be made. 



" I am, Sir, 



" Your obedient servant, 

 "(Signed.) T. II. Elliott, Secretary." 



[Enclosure.'] 

 *' Board of Agriculture, 



" 4, Whitehall Place, London, S.W., 



" March 1st, 1893. 



"Sir, — I am directed by the Board of Agriculture to inform you that they have 

 received numerous complaints from Railway Companies as to the difficulties ex- 

 perienced by their officials owing to the want of information in regard to Regulations 

 made by Local Authorities affecting the movement of animals. 



" The Railway Companies state that it not unfrequently occurs that animals, 

 after having been conveyed to a certain district, have to be returned to the place 

 from whence they were brought, owing to the fact that Regulations have been made 

 by the Local Authority of the district prohibiting the introduction of the animals, 

 the Railway Company having had no opportunity of making themselves acquainted 

 with the fact that such restrictive Regulations existed. 



"With the view of avoiding such inconvenience for the future, the Board have 

 issued the accompanying Order * requiring that a copy of any future movement 

 Regulations that may be made by Local Authorities under the Orders named in 

 the Schedule to the Order shall be sent to every Railway Company having a Rail- 

 way Station in a District or part of a District to which the Regulations apply, 

 and also providing that a copy should be sent to the Secretary of the Railway 

 Clearing House in London, who has arranged to communicate the Regulations 

 to all Railway Companies in Great Britain. 



" With reference to any existing Local Regulations which are now in force, I am 

 directed by the Board to suggest that it would be a great convenience to the 

 Railway Companies, and would help to ensure the efficient carrying out of the 



* Entitled " The Regulations of Local Authorities Order of 1893 " (not reprinted), 



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