Report on the Cattle Disease in the Island of Cyprus. 461 
1. The High Commissioner shall have power and authority from time to 
time and at all times to notify in such maimer as he may tliinlc fit any 
district or area or place within any area to be a place infected with animal 
disease. • 
2. The High Commissioner may also from time to time make such general 
or special orders as he thinks fit for the following pm-poses or any of them : — 
(a) For the slaughter of any animal within an infected district, place, 
or area ; 
(6) For prohibiting or regulating the movement of animals in, or out 
of an infected district, place, or area ; 
(c) For prescribing and regulating the isolation or separation of 
animals being in an infected district, place, or area ; 
(fi) For prohibiting or regulating the removal of carcasses, fodder, 
litter, dung or other things into, in or out of an infected district, place, 
or area ; 
(e) For prescribing and regulating the destruction, burial, disposal or 
treatment of carcasses, fodder, litter, dung, or other things being in an 
infected district, place or area, or removed thereout ; 
(_/) For prescribing and regulating the cleansing and disinfecting of 
infected places and areas or parts thereof; 
{g) For prohibiting or regulating within any infected district, place or 
area, the placing or keeping of animals on common or unenclosed lands, 
or in fields or other places insufficiently fenced, or on the sides of 
highways ; 
Qi) For prohibiting oi regulating the holding of markets, sales, or fairs 
of animals in public or private places where animals may be exposed for 
sale ; 
(j) For prohibiting or regulating the carrying, leading, or driving of 
animals on highways or thoroughfares or elsewhere ; 
(j) For prohibiting or regulating the moving, driving, sending or 
carrying of animals or of dung or other things likely to spread disease ; 
(k) For prohibiting the landing from vessels of any animals, carcasses, 
horns, hides, bones, fodder, litter, dung or other thing brought from any 
foreign country or inland port ; 
(?) Generally for the purpose of in any way preventing the introduction 
into this Island or the spreading therein of any contagious or infectious 
disease affecting animals ; 
(m) For the appointment, pay, and regulation of the duties of persons 
to be charged witli the execution of any provisions or orders made by 
virtue of this Ordinance. 
3. The High Commissioner shall have power and authority from time to 
time and at any time to notify in such manner as he may think fit anj' 
district or area or place within any area as being no longer infected, and 
thereupon, save as otherwise by such notification provided, for any general or 
special order that may have been given imder the provisions of this Ordinance 
shall so far as it affects any such district or area or place within any area 
cease to have effect. 
4. The High Commissioner may from time to time and at all times by any 
writing under his hand depute to any Civil Commissioner, Assistant Civil 
Commissioner, Commandant or Local Commandant, or other officer of police, 
or other person or persons designated in such writing, all or any one or more 
of the powers and authorities vested in him by this Ordinance. 
5. Every person having in his possession or under his charge an animal 
that may be reasonably supposed to be affected with any contagious disease 
shall, as far as practicable, keep such separate from animals not so affected, 
and shall with all practicable speed give notice of the fact of the animal being 
