Importation of Dogs. 



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embarkation, as shipowners cannot properly permit 

 the embarkation of any dog on board their vessels 

 for importation into this country unless the dog is 

 accompanied by the requisite licence. 

 {d) The telegram should contain the undertaking of the 

 owner to carry out the conditions imposed, 



7. The conditions imposed in the licence require the deten- 

 tion of the dog for a period of six months on some suitable 

 private premises to be specified by the owner, and approved 

 by the Board, where the dog will be under the supervision 

 of the officers of the Board and of the local authority, for 

 whose inspection it should be produced if required. But if 

 the general conditions imposed are properly carried out, the 

 Board are prepared, on the production of a certificate of a 

 duly qualified veterinary surgeon that the dog is not affected 

 with or suspected of rabies, to consider applications for the 

 release of the dog after a period of detention of ninety days. 

 Dogs which have been recently purchased from foreign dealers, 

 or of which the antecedents are unknown, will be subjected 

 to special restrictions and a longer period of detention. 



8. The owner's private place of residence is regarded in 

 most instances as a suitable place of detention. 



9. Hotels, barracks, or other similar premises where the 

 dog cannot be conveniently isolated, are not regarded by the 

 Board as suitable places of detention. 



10. On arrival at a port in Great Britain, and before the dog 

 can be landed, the holder of the licence is required to produce 

 it for the inspection of the officer of Her Majesty's Customs, 

 who is empowered and directed to mark it with the name of 

 the port, the date of landing, and his initials, as a verification 

 of the legality of the landing. 



11. The dog must be taken as soon as it is landed, by the 

 nearest available route, and without unnecessary delay, to the 

 premises specified in the licence. 



12. In the case, however, of dogs landed late in the day, 

 and where the place of detention is several hours' journey 

 from the port, the Board do not object to the journey of the 

 dog from one place to the other being broken by its detention 

 at some suitable place for one night only, provided that it is 



