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ORDERS IN COUNCIL. 
REGULATIONS RELATING TO CONTAGIOUS OR INFECTIOUS 
DISEASES AMONGST FOREIGN ANIMALS LANDED AT 
PORTS IN GREAT BRITAIN. 
1. Slaughter. 
Should one or more sheep or swine be found to be affected with 
any contagious or infectious disease (except cattle plague), such 
sheep or swine shall be kept separate from those of the same cargo 
which have been passed as healthy. The slaughter of the healthy 
sheep or swine of such cargo may be permitted to take place imme- 
diately, and such slaughtering may, if desired by the importer or 
consignee, be continued without intermission. 
The carcases of the healthy animals, so slaughtered, may be re- 
moved without a 'post-mortem examination, under the superintend- 
ence of the Inspector, or of the police, or of any officer appointed 
by the local authority in that behalf. 
The slaughter of the diseased animals shall take place under the 
superintendence of the Inspector, who shall make a post-mortem 
examination of each carcase, and give instructions as to the disposal 
of it. 
2. Cleansing and Disinfection. 
When any animal suffering from any contagious or infectious 
disease has been landed at any port, or has been slaughtered at the 
landing-place in consequence of being so affected, the landing-place, 
lair, or other place where such animal has been, shall not be used 
for any other animals until such landing-place, lair, or other place 
has been properly cleansed and disinfected. 
3. Cattle Plague. 
When cattle plague has been detected in one or more of a cargo 
of animals, the whole of the animals forming such cargo shall be 
detained and slaughtered at the place of landing. 
4. Pleuro -Pneumonia. 
When pleuro-pneumonia has been detected in one or more of a 
cargo of animals, the whole of the cattle forming part of such cargo 
shall be subject to the following regulations, namely : — 
When such cattle have been landed at any place other than within 
the defined part of a port, they shall be slaughtered at the landing- 
place, or if, at the port at which such cattle are landed, there is a 
part defined for slaughter, they may, with the permission of the 
Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Customs, be removed into such 
defined port for the purpose of such slaughter. 
When such cattle have been landed within a defined part of a 
port, or have been moved as above provided into such defined part, 
they shall not be removed therefrom alive, but shall be slaughtered 
within such defined part. 
