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ORDER IN COUNCIL. 
1. This Order shall take effect from and immediately after the 
thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty- 
nine. 
2. This Order extends to Great Britain only. 
3. In this Order words have the same meaning as in The Con- 
tagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869. 
4. A Local Authority may, from time to time, with the view of 
preventing the spreading of foot-and-mouth disease, make regulations 
for applying to that disease all the provisions contained in The Con- 
tagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869, relating to pleuro-pneumonia, 
or such part or parts thereof as they may think fit : Provided never- 
theless, that for the purposes of this Order, the rules for foot-and- 
mouth disease contained in the Schedule to this Order, shall be in 
substitution of the pleuro-pneumonia rules contained in the Seventh 
Schedule to The Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869, and a 
Local Authority may, from time to time, apply the whole of such 
rules, or any part or parts of such rules as they may think fit, for 
the purpose aforesaid : and, provided further, that such Local 
Authority may, from time to time, revoke or alter any such regula- 
tions, and that for the purposes of this Order, section fifty-five of 
the said Act shall be read and have effect as if the word “ ten ” 
were inserted in place of the word “ thirty.” 
5. The forms given in the Eighth Schedule to The Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869, with such variations as circumstances 
require, may be used by an Inspector for the purposes of this Order. 
6. Nothing in this Order shall affect the operation of the provi- 
sions contained in Article 21 of The Metropolitan Contagious Dis- 
eases (Animals) Order of August, 1869, relating to foot-and-mouth 
disease. 
Schedule. 
Rules for Foot-and-Mouth Disease. 
1. These rules are to have effect with respect to any field, stable, 
cow-shed, or other premises infected by foot-and-mouth disease. 
2. Animals affected with foot-and-mouth disease, or herded with 
animals so affected, are not to be moved from such field, stable, 
cow-shed or other premises, or from any land or building conti- 
guous thereto in the same occupation, except either for mmediate 
slaughter, according to regulations to be from time to time made by 
the Local Authority for insuring such slaughter, or if not for im- 
mediate slaughter, under a licence signed by an officer of the Local 
Authority appointed to issue licences in that behalf. 
3. Sheds and places used by animals affected with foot-and- 
mouth disease are forthwith, after being so used, to be cleansed and 
disinfected to the satisfaction of the Local Authority. 
(Signed) ARTHUR HELPS. 
