Glanders and Farcy Act,—Appendix
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Owner or
person in
charge of
diseased
horse to
give notice.
10. The owner or any person in charge of a diseased horse shall give imme-
diate information of the horse being diseased to the Inspector or to such authority
as the Local Government may appoint in this behalf.
Prohibition
against
removal,
without
license, of
horse which
has been
with diseas-
ed horse.
11. No person in charge of any horse which has been in the same field, build-
ing 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, vexatiously
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 committed.
Penalty for
refusing to
comply
with notice
under sec-
tion 9, or
for moving
horse con-
trary to
section 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 there of 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 carcasses of diseased horses ;
(d) regulate the disinfecting of buildings and places in which
diseased horses have been, and prescribe what things found
therein or near thereto shall be destroyed ; and
(e) regulate the grant of licenses under section 11 and the con-
ditions on which those licenses shall be granted.
(3) All rules under this section shall be published in the local official
Gazette, and, on such publication, shall have effect as if enacted by this Act.
(4) In making any rule under this section, the Local Government may
direct that a breach of it 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.
Appoint-
ment of
same
person to
be both Ins-
pector and
Veterinary
Practi-
tioner.
15. Any Veterinary Practitioner may be appointed by the Local Government
to be both Inspector and Veterinary Practitioner for all or any of the purposes
of this Act or of any rule thereunder.
Protection
to persons
acting
under Act.
16. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person
for anything which is, in good faith, done or intended to be done under this
Act.