Anthrax Regulations

310 CAP. 211] Belize Agricultural Health Authority CHAPTER211 ANTHRAX REGULATIONS ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 1. Short title. 2. Notification of disease. 3. Notification ofinfected places. 4. Duty of occupiers of infected places. 5. Prohibition of movement of animals in infected places. 6. Carcasses to be buried or burnt in infected places. 7. Exhumation of carcasses prohibited. 8. Carcasses to be kept intact. 9. Milk not to be used as food for man or other animals. 10. Disinfection of stables, utensils, etc .. 11. Obligation of owners affected or suspected animals. 12. Vaccination and inoculation in infected places and areas. 13. Penalty. THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE [ Printed by the Government Printer,] No. 1 Power Lane, Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. REVISED EDITION 2003 1. 2. Belize Agricultural Health Authority CHAPTER211 ANTHRAX REGULATIONS (Section 11) [CAP.211 These Regulations may be cited as the ANTHRAX REGULATIONS. (1) Every person (a) having in his possession or under his charge any animal affected with, or suspected to be affected with, anthrax, or the carcass of any animal so affected or suspected, or (b) who suspects by reason of the appearance or behaviour of any animal (the ownership of which cannot be immediately established) that such animal is or was at the time of its death affected or suspected, ofbeing affected with anthrax, shall within twenty-four hours give notice of such animal or such carcass being or having been so affected or suspected, to the constable in charge of the nearest police station. (2) Every veterinary surgeon who, upon examining any animal or the carcass of any animal, is of opinion or suspects that such animal is, or was when it died or was slaughtered, affected with anthrax, shall within twenty-four hours give notice of the affection or suspicion of affection to the constable in charge of the nearest police station. 371 Short title. Notification of disease. THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE [ Prin.ted by the Governm.ent Printer, ] No. I Power Lane, REVISED EDITION 2003 Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. 312 CAP. 211] Belize Agricultural Health Authority Notification of infected places. (3) Every such constable upon the receipt of such notice shall ( a) forthwith transmit the information by telegram to the Chief Agricultural Officer; (b) as soon as may be practicable thereafter confirm in writing to the Chief Agricultural Officer the transmission by telegram of such information; and (c) inform the Medical Officer of Health. 3. (1) The Chief Agricultural Officer shall, upon receipt of any information pursuant to paragraph (3) of regulation 2 of these Regulations, forthwith cause a notice in the Form A in the Schedule to these Regulations to be served upon the occupier of any premises whereupon such animal is. (2) The Chief Agricultural Officer shall immediately after the service of the notice referred to in paragraph ( 1) of this regulation cause an inspector to proceed to the place to which such notice refers, and there make a full investigation of all the circumstances, and such inspector shall make a report thereon to the Chief Agricultural Officer. (3) An inspector may give directions in relation to the steps which should be taken in dealing with any animal affected with anthrax and with any other animal, vehicle, utensil, implement, fodder, litter, dung or other thing (whether similar to the foregoing ornot) within the infected place, and the occupier of every such infected place shall comply with such directions. ( 4) A notice under paragraph ( 1) of this regulation shall remain in force until withdrawn by a Withdrawal Notice in the Form B in the Schedule to these Regulations. THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE [ Printed by the Government Printer,] No. 1 Power Lane, REVISED EDITION 2003 Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. 4. Belize Agricultural Health Authority [CAP.211 The owner or occupier of any infected place shall ( a) prevent access of any other animal (i) to any animal or carcass affected with or suspected of being affected with anthrax; (ii) to any part of the premises which has been exposed to infection by any animal or carcass affected with or suspected of being affected with anthrax; (b) detain on the premises any animal affected with or suspected of being affected with anthrax, and any other animal which has been in the same shed, stable, building, yard or field with any such animal; (c) disinfect as soon as practicable with any such disinfectant as an inspector may, in any particular case, authorise, any place where the animal or carcass has lain or where its blood or body discharges have escaped. 5. (1) No animal shall be moved into or out of, an infected place except in accordance with the terms of a permit in writing granted by an inspector. (2) No animal shall be allowed to stray into or out of an infected place. (3) No carcass, litter, dung, fodder, utensils, pens, hurdles or other 373 Duty of occupiers of infected places. Prohibition of movement of animals in infected places. THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE [ Prin.ted by the Governm.ent Printer, ] No. I Power Lane, REVISED EDITION 2003 Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. 374 CAP. 211] Belize Agricultural Health Authority Carcasses to be buried or burnt in infected places. Exhumation of carcasses prohibited. Carcasses to be kept intact. Milk not to be used as food for manor other animals. things ( whether similar to the foregoing or not) used in connection with any animal affected with, or suspected of being affected with, anthrax shall be removed from an infected place except in accordance with the terms of a permit in writing granted by an inspector. 6. The carcass of every animal which dies within an infected place shall (a) within twelve hours of death, be burned within the infected place as near to the place where such animal died as practicable; or (b) be buried with lime within the infected place in a pit not less than seven feet deep and such pit shall be dug as near to the place where such animal died as practicable and shall in no case be less than one hundred feet from any dwelling house, river, well, water course, drain or other channel. 7. No person, except in accordance with the terms of a permit in writing granted by an inspector, shall open any pit in which the carcass of any animal has been buried pursuant to the provisions of regulation 6 of these Regulations, or dig up or remove such carcass or any part thereof. 8. No person shall skin, open or in any way mutilate the carcass of any animal which died or is suspected to have died from anthrax: Provided, however, that the provisions of this regulation shall not apply to any autopsy or diagnostic examination perfom1ed by, or on the instructions of, the inspector. 9. No milk obtained from any animal affected with, or suspected ofbeing affected with anthrax shall be used as food either for human beings or for animals THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE [ Printed by the Government Printer,] No. 1 Power Lane, REVISED EDITION 2003 Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. Belize Agricultural Health Authority [CAP.211 and any container in which such milk has been placed shall be thoroughly sterilised before being used for any other purpose. 10. Every occupier of an infected place shall at his own expense and in such manner as the inspector shall direct, cleanse and disinfect (a) all parts of any shed, stable, building, field or other place in which any animal affected with, or suspected of being affected with, anthrax has died or was slaughtered or was kept prior to its death or slaughter; (b) every utensil, pen, hurdle or other thing (whether similar to the foregoing ornot) used in connection with any animal affected with, or suspected ofbeing affected with, anthrax. 11. (1) No person shall, in relation to any animal affected with, or suspected of being affected with, anthrax (a) expose any such animal in any market, fair, sale yard or in any other place at which animals are exposed for sale; (b) place any such animal in any place adjacent to any market, fair, sale yard or other place at which animals are exposed for sale; (c) send or carry or cause to be sent or carried by inland navigable water or on any coasting vessel, any such animal; ( d) carry, lead or drive, or cause to be carried, led or driven on any highway orthoroughfare, 375 Disinfection of stables, utensils, etc .. Obligation of owners of affected or suspected animals. THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE [ Prin.ted by the Governm.ent Printer, ] No. I Power Lane, REVISED EDITION 2003 Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. 376 CAP. 211] Belize Agricultural Health Authority Vaccination and inoculation in infected places and areas. any such animal; (e) place, keep or graze, or permit to be placed kept or grazed, on the sides of any public road or on any land adjoining a public road which is mlfenced or insufficiently fenced, any such animal; (I) allow any such animal to stray on to a public road or on to the sides thereof or to be on un-enclosed land or in any field or place which is insufficiently fenced. (2) In addition to any penalty recoverable against any person convicted of an offence against this regulation, every animal found in any place in contravention of the provisions of this regulation may be moved by or at the direction of an inspector to some convenient place and there detained and isolated. 12. (1) Every owner of any animal within an infected place or area shall, if required by the Chief Agricultural Officer or an inspector and at his own risk and expense, cause such animal to be vaccinated, inoculated or otherwise treated in such manner and with such substances as the Chief Agricultural Officer or the inspector may direct. (2) Every such owner shall comply with such directions as an inspector may from time to time give with regard to the care, management and method ofhandling any such animal during and subsequent to the time of such vaccination, inoculation or other treatment. (3) Every such owner as required, shall from time to time report to the Chief Agricultural Officer the number of animals which have been vaccinated, inoculated or otherwise treated and such report shall indicate the THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE [ Printed by the Government Printer,] No. 1 Power Lane, REVISED EDITION 2003 Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. Belize Agricultural Health Authority [CAP.211 respective number of each type of animal and the date upon which each animal was so treated. 377 13. Any person who commits a breach ofany of the provisions of these Penalty. Regulations which is not made an offence under the provisions of the Animals (Diseases and Importation) Act, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months. SCHEDULE FORMA (Reg. 3(1)) Notice declaring an Infected Place Whereas notice having been received that there is ( or has been) an animal ( or carcass) which is affected with, or is suspected of being affected with, anthrax, at the premises known as .............................................................. .. in the district of .................................................................... . Now, therefore, I hereby give you notice as the occupier of the aforesaid premises, that the premises specified in the Schedule hereto are hereby declared to be an infected place and that until this notice is withdrawn it is unlawful for any person DATEDthis (a) to move any animal into orout of the infected place except in accordance with the tenns of a permit in writing granted by an Inspector; (b) to allow any animal to come in contact or be associated with any animal affected with, or suspected ofbeing affected with, anthrax. day of 20 THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE [ Prin.ted by the Governm.ent Printer, ] No. I Power Lane, REVISED EDITION 2003 Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. 378 CAP. 211] Belize Agricultural Health Authority (Signature) ...................................................... .. (Title of office) .......................................... . Description of Infected Place Premises District FORMB (Reg. 3 (4)) Withdrawal Notice To .............. of ............................................................... .. I, .............. of ................................................................. . being an Inspector appointed under the Animals (Diseases and Importation) Act, do hereby withdraw, as from the .......... day of.. .................... 20 ... .. the notice relating to premises in your occupation at ........ dated the ......... day of .......... 20 .. .. . . .. . signed by ........... and served upon you on the ...... . day of ......... 20 ..... . DATED this ............. day of ........................... 20 ........ . THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE (Signature) ......................................... . (Title of office) ................................................ . [ Printed by the Government Printer,] No. 1 Power Lane, Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. REVISED EDITION 2003