ORDER IN COUNCIL. 
959 
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. Words in this Order have the same meaning as in the Act of 
1869. 
2. Where a Local Authority is authorised by the Privy Council 
to slaughter cattle that have been in contact with cattle affected 
with pleuro-pneumonia, such Local Authority may cause all cattle 
that have within thirty days been in contact with cattle affected with 
pleuro-pneumonia within their district to be slaughtered, subject to 
the following provisions:— 
(1.) The owner of any animal so slaughtered may either dispose 
of the carcase on his own account, with a license from 
some officer appointed in that behalf by the Local Au¬ 
thority, or may require the Local Authority to dispose of 
the same, in which latter case the Local Authority shall, 
by way of compensation for every such animal, pay to the 
owner thereof such sum, not exceeding thirty pounds, as 
may equal three-fourths of the value of the animal 
slaughtered. 
(2.) The Local Authority may require the value of any such 
animal to be ascertained by their officers, or by arbitration, 
and generally they may impose conditions as to evidence 
of the slaughter and value of any such animal. 
3. The expenditure of a Local Authority in pursuance of this 
Order in respect of compensation shall be defrayed out of the Local 
Rate. 
4. Where the Local Authority in pursuance of this Order cause 
any cattle to be slaughtered, the owner thereof shall not be entitled 
to recover in respect of the insurance thereof any sum which, 
together with the payment which he receives for the same under 
this Order, would exceed the sum which he would have been 
entitled to receive in respect of the insurance. 
5. Every Local Authority shall keep, in such manner and form 
as the Privy Council from time to time direct or approve, a record, 
stating the date of any order made by them for slaughter under this 
Order, and the execution of the order, and other proper particulars; 
and such record shall be evidence if any question arises concerning 
an order for the slaughter of any such animal, or concerning com¬ 
pensation in respect thereof. 
(Signed) Edmund Harrison. 
XLV. 
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