ORDERS OF COUNCIL. 
697 
Council, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in them vested 
under The Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869 (in this 
Order referred to as the Act of 1869), and of every other power 
enabling them in this behalf, do order, and it is hereby ordered, 
as follows:— 
1. This Order may be cited as the Markets Order of 1872. 
2. This Order extends to Great Britain only. 
3. Words in this Order have the same meaning as in the Act 
of 1869. 
4. Every Local Authority is hereby empowered to make from 
time to time, with the view of preventing the spreading of con¬ 
tagious or infectious disease among animals, regulations for the 
following purposes, or any of them :— 
(1) Eor requiring the owners, lessees, or occupiers of places 
used for the holding of markets, fairs, exhibitions, or 
sales of animals, or for the lairage of animals, to cleanse 
those places from time to time at their own expense : 
(2) Eor requiring the owners, lessees, or occupiers of those 
places to disinfect the same, or any specified part thereof, 
from time to time at their own expense, where, in the 
judgment of the Local Authority, the circumstances are 
such as to allow of such disinfection being reasonably 
required: 
(3) Eor prescribing the mode in which such cleansing and 
such disinfection shall be effected. 
5. Notwithstanding anything in The Animals Order of 1871, 
Article 39 of that Order shall not apply to the cleansing and 
disinfecting of any such place as aforesaid. 
6. If the owner, lessee, or occupier of any such place as 
aforesaid does any act in contravention of the regulations of a 
Local Authority under this Order, or fails in any respect to ob¬ 
serve the same, it shall not be lawful for him or any other person 
at any time thereafter, until further Order of the Privy Council, 
to hold a market, fair, exhibition or sale of animals in that place, 
and the holding therein of any market, fair, exhibition, or sale of 
animals shall be and the same is hereby prohibited accordingly, 
and if any person holds any market, fair, exhibition, or sale of 
animals in contravention of this Order, he shall be deemed guilty 
of an offence against this Order. 
(Signed) Arthur Helps. 
