Glanders & Farcy Act.
Appendix VIII.
Horse to be des-
troyed if found
diseased : other¬
wise restored.
8. (1) If the Veterinary Practitioner certifies in writing that the horse
is diseased, the Inspector shall cause the same to be immediately destroyed :
Provided that, in the case of any disease other than glanders or farcy,
horses certified to be diseased as aforesaid may, subject to any rules which
the Local Government may make in this behalf, be either destroyed or other-
wise treated or dealt with as the Veterinary Practitioner may deem necessary.
(2) If after completing the examination, the Veterinary Practitioner
does not certify that the horse is diseased, the Inspector shall at once deliver
the same to the person entitled to the possession thereof.
When horse dis-
-ased, place
where it has
been to be dis-
infected, etc.
9. (1) When any diseased horse has been in any building, shed or other
enclosed place, or in any open lines, the Inspector may issue a notice to the
owner of the building, shed, place or lines, or to the person in charge thereof
directing him to have the same disinfected and the internal fittings thereof
or such other things found therein or near thereto, as the Local Govern-
ment may by rule prescribe, destroyed.
(2) On the failure or neglect of such owner or other person as aforesaid
to comply with the notice within a reasonable time, the Inspector shall cause
the building, shed, place or lines to be disinfected and the fittings or other
things to be destroyed, and the expense (if any) thereby incurred may be
recovered from the owner or other person as if it were a fine.
Owner or person
in charge of
diseased horse to
give notice.
Prohibition
against removal
without License
of horse which
has been with
diseased horse.
10. The owner or any person in charge of a diseased horse shall give
immediate information of the horse being diseased to the Inspector or to
such authority as the Local Government may appoint in this behalf.
11. No person in charge of any horse which has been in the same field,
building or place as, or in contact with, a diseased horse, shall remove such
horse except in good faith for the purpose of preventing infection, or under
a license to be granted by the Inspector and subject to the conditions of
the license.
Vexatious
entries, searches
and seizures,
12. (1) Whoever, being an Inspector appointed under this Act, vexa-
tiously and unnecessarily enters or searches any field, building or other place,
or seizes or detains any horse on the pretence that it is diseased, shall be
punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months,
or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
(2) No prosecution under this section shall be instituted after the expiry
of three months from the date on which the offence has been com-
mitted.
Penalty for
refusing to
comply with
notice under
section 9 or for
moving horse
contrary to sec-
tion 11.
13. Whoever refuses or neglects to comply with any notice issued by the
Inspector under section 9, or removes any horse in contravention of section
11, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend
to one month, or with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, or with both.
Power to make
rules.
14. (1) The Local Government may make rules to carry out the purposes
and objects of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the fore-
going power, such rules as aforesaid may—
(a) regulate entries, searches and seizures by Inspectors under this Act;
(b) regulate the use of tests and the isolation of horses subjected thereto,
and provide for recovering the expense of detaining, isolating
and testing horses from the owners or persons in charge thereof
as if it were a fine;
(c) regulate the destruction or treatment as the case may be, of horses
certified under section 8 to be diseased, and the disposal of the
carcases of diseased horses;
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