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Live Stock Import Regulations. 



[OCT., 



The Board have received through the Foreign Office the 

 following information relating to the importation of live stock 

 into Holland. 



"tions. Holland.* Netherlands is regulated by the Royal 



4th August, 1888. The former prohibits the importation from 

 other countries of cattle, sheep, and goats, and of some animal 

 products which might introduce contagious diseases. The 

 second Decree prohibits the importation and transit of pigs 

 and of some slaughter house products. The Government have 

 power, however, to make exceptions in special circumstances, 

 provided due precautions are taken against the introduction of 

 contagion. Such special permits can only be obtained by 

 application to the Minister of Agriculture. The application 

 must be accompanied by two certificates, one from the owner 

 of the animal, giving particulars as to its age, marks, and breed, 

 name of purchaser and destination, and one from a duly 

 qualified veterinary surgeon. 



The latter certificate should state that the animal has been 

 examined and found free from disease, and in the case of cattle 

 that there has been no infectious pleuro-pneumonia for 120 days 

 and no cattle-plague or foot-and-mouth disease on the premises 

 for the last six weeks ; in the case of sheep that for the last six 

 weeks there has been no cattle-plague, foot-and-mouth disease, 

 sheep pox or foot-rot ; in the case of swine that no foot-and- 

 mouth disease and no swine fever has existed on the premises 

 for the last six weeks. 



The importation into and transit through the Netherlands 

 of solipedes from Great Britain and Ireland is forbidden, but 

 this prohibition is not applicable as far as importation is con- 

 cerned to horses bought by the State for purposes of the Army, 

 or to horses brought direct by ship to Amsterdam or Rotter- 



* Live stock import regulations have been published in this Journal for the follow- 

 ing countries : — United States, June, 1903, and Sept., 1906; Argentina, Jan., 1905, 

 April, 1905, Oct., 1905, and June, 1906; Canada, March, 1905 ; New South Wales, 

 April, 1905 ; Germany, May, 1905 ; New Zealand, June, 1905 ; South Australia, July, 

 1905; France, August, 1905; Belgium, Sept., 1905 ; Uruguay , Oct., 1905 ; Victoria, 

 Nov., 1905 ; Spain, Dec, 1905; Queensland, Jan. , 1906; Western Australia, Feb., 

 1906; Tasmania, March, 1906; Transvaal, June, 1906; and Ceylon and Cape 

 Colony, Sept. 1906. 



Live Stock 

 Import Reg"ula- 



The importation of animals into the 



Decrees of 8th December, 1870, and of 



