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so affected to the Commissioner or other authority of the district wherein the 
animal so affected is ; and if witliout lawful exciisc, proof whereof shall lie on 
him, he fails to keep the animal so affected or supposed to be, separate from 
all others not affected, or to give such notice as is hereinbefore required to be 
given, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Zl., or to be imprisoned for 
any term not exceeding one month, and with or without hard labour, and it 
shall be lawful for the Commissioner in his discretion to inflict such fine or 
imprisonment. 
6. Any contravention of the orders or regulations issued under the autho- 
rity of this Ordinance, or any obstruction to an officer or person appointed to 
execute the same, may be punished by fine for a first offence not exceeding 
51., for the second offence not exceeding 101., and for a third offence not 
exceeding 20?., which fines may be adjudged by any court of competent juris- 
diction, and recoverable iinder the provisions of " The Fines and Penaltie.s 
Eecovery Ordinance, 1879 ;" and any portion of any fine adjudged by any 
Court may by such Court be awarded to the person or persons upon whose 
information the conviction is obtained. 
7. In this Ordinance animals mean bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, calves, 
camels, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats and swine. 
8. All acts done before the making of this Ordinance for the purpose or 
with the intention of staying infection or contagion of disease to animals shall 
if such acts have been done by authority of the High Commissioner, or have 
been or may be sanctioned or ratified by him, be considered as having been 
done under authority of this Ordinance. 
9. This Ordinance may for all purposes be cited as "The Contagious 
Diseases Animals Ordinance, 1880," and shall have effect only for the period 
of six calendar months from the date thereof. 
Given at Nicosia this seventh day of February, 1880. 
(Signed) Robert Biddulph, 
High Commissioner. 
V. R. 
Public Notice. 
1. — The High Commissioner under the power and authority vested in him 
by "The Contagious Diseases (Animals) Ordinance, 1880," has proclaimed 
the several places or areas in the schedule hereto mentioned as places and 
areas infected with animal disease. 
2. — The High Commissioner, under the power and authority as aforesaid, 
has also ordered as follows : — 
(a) Every diseased animal within any of such districts or areas which 
may be considered incurable, or dangerous as a medium of infection to 
other animals, shall be slaughtered at and according to the direction 
of the Connnissioner of the district, or of the Chief Inspector of Cattle 
Disease. 
(h) The moving of any animal into or out of the several scheduled 
places or areas is hereby prohibited, 
(c) All diseased animals within any of such scheduled districts shall be 
isolated and separated from any animals other than such as are diseased. 
(fZ) No carcass, fodder, litter, dung, or other material which in the 
opinion of the said Commissioner or said Inspector shall be considered 
capable of conveying infection shall be moved into or out of any of the 
said scheduled places or areas. 
(e) All such carcasses, fodder, litter, dung or other material shall be 
destroyed as the said Commissioner or the said Inspector may direct. 
(/) All stables, buildings, sheds, pens, places, and areas in which any 
diseased animal shall have been during its disease or immediately prior 
