64 IMPORTATION OF CATTLE INTO THE. CAPE. 
For the period after 31st December, 1903, the regulations 
dealing with the importation of meat are to be revised by 
law, Should such new regulations not have been completed 
by that date, then the regulations of sub-section 2 as to 
importation will remain in force until further notice. 
THE TUBERCULIN TEST FOR CATTLE IMPORTED INTO CAPE 
COLONY. 
The following regulations for the examination and 
quarantine of imported cattle for tuberculosis were proclaimed 
in Cape Colony on April 21st last, and wili come into opera- 
tion on August Ist next: 
1. The word “cattle” in these Regulations shall be taken 
to mean and include all animals o7 the bovine tribe. 
2. Nocattle shall be allowed to enter this Colony by sea 
until the conditions set forth in these Regulations are 
complied with. 
3. If there shall be produced to the Officer authorised by 
the Government to make the necessary examination of cattle 
under the provisions of the Animal Diseases Act No. 27 of 
1893, a certificate signed by a duly qualified Veterinary 
Surgeon of the country from which such animals have been 
brought, to the effect that they have, before being embarked, 
been submitted to the test known as the tuberculin test, and 
have not given any reaction indicative of the presence of 
tuberculosis, and if, upon examination, the Government 
officer shall have reason to believe that they are free from any 
contagious or infectious disease he shall forthwith give a 
permit for their landing at any port or place in this Colony. 
-4. In the absence of a satisfactory certificate as aforesaid 
the cattle shall be removed to a place provided by the 
(sovernment for quarantine purposes, and shall be subjected 
by a Government Veterinary Surgeon to the necessary testing 
by tuberculin to ascertain whether they are or are not affected 
with tuberculosis. 
5. In the event of the test indicating the existence of 
