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PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 
A Bill to amend and perpetuate the Acts relating to contagious 
or infectious Diseases among Cattle and other Animals; 
and for other Purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the 
authority of the same, as follows : 
1. This Act may be cited as The Contagious Diseases (Animals) 
Act, 1869. 
2. This Act shall not extend to Ireland. 
3. This Act shall be read as one Act with The Contagious 
Diseases Animals Acts (described in section three of The Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Act, 1867), as far as they remain in force after 
the passing of this Act, which Acts are in this Act referred to as the 
former Acts ; and for that purpose the term “ this Act” where used 
in any of the former Acts shall be construed to include the present 
Act, and where used in this Act shall be construed to include each 
of the former Acts, unless there is something in the subject or 
context inconsistent wtth that construction ; and the former Acts 
and this Act may be cited together as The Contagious Diseases 
(Animals) Acts. 
4. The former Acts as far as they are in force at the passing of 
this Act shall be and the same are hereby made perpetual, subject 
to the provisions of this Act. 
5. Foreign animals shall not be landed in Great Britain except 
at ports from time to time prescribed in that behalf by the Privy 
Council, in accordance with section forty-six of The Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Act, 1867. 
6. All foreign animals landed as aforesaid shall be landed within 
the part or parts of the port defined in that behalf by the Privy 
Council, and according to such regulations as the Privy Council 
from time to time prescribe, and shall within such time as the 
Privy Council appoint be taken to a place or places approved by 
the Privy Council adjoining or near to the place or places of landing, 
and shall not be removed thence alive, and in the meantime shall 
be kept separate from all animals not being foreign animals, and 
all animals from time to time within any place so approved shall be 
dealt with as foreign animals ; provided that the Privy Council may, 
if they think fit, with respect to any foreign animals landed at any 
port, suspend for a period or periods not exceeding in any case in 
the whole three years from the passing of this Act the operation 
of this section as far as it relates to separation. 
7. In addition to the Provisions of section forty-seven of The 
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1867, and other provisions of 
the former Acts relative to powers of a local authority respecting 
