Glanders and Farcy Act, 1899 (Act No. XIII of 1899)

THE GLANDERS AND FARCY ACT, 1899 (Act No. XIII of 1899) An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Glanders and Farcy. 2.(1) In thjs Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, "diseased" means affected with the glanders or farcy or any other dangerous epidemic among horses which the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify in this behalf. (2) The provisions of this Act relating to horses shall apply also to camels, asses and mules. 3.(1) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, apply this Act or any provisions of this Act to any local area, to be specified in such notification. 4.(l) When this Act has been so applied to a local area, the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint such persons as it thinks fit to be Inspectors under this Act and to exercise and perform, within the whole of the local area or such portions thereof as it may prescribe, the powers conferred and the duties imposed by this Act on such officers. 5. Within the local limit,; for which he is so appointed, any such Inspector as aforesaid may ... enter and search any field, building or other place for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is therein any horse which is diseased. 6. Within such limits as aforesaid. the Inspectors may seize any horse any horse which is diseased. 7 .(1) On any such seizure as aforesaid, the Inspector shall cause the horse seized to be examined as soon as possible by such Veterinary Practitioner as the Government may appoint in this behalf: 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 may, subject to any rules which the Government may make in this behalf be either destroyed or otherwise treated or dealt with as the Veterinary Practitioner may deem necessary. 9.(1) When any diseased horse has been in any building, shed, place 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 Government 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 . IO. 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 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 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. 13. Whoever refuses or neglects lo comply with any notice issued by the Inspector under section 9, or removes any horse in contraventfon 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 Taka or with both.