Animal Diseases (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) Rules (Cap. 364)

[Rev. 2012] CAP. 364 Animal Diseases [Subsidiary] 39 [Issue 1] ANIMAL DISEASES (FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE) RULES [Cap. 213 (1948), Sub. Leg.] 1. These Rules may be cited as the Animal Diseases (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) Rules. 2. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires— “infected area” means an area declared under section 5 of the Act to be an area infected with foot-and-mouth disease. 3. Where a veterinary officer or a veterinary inspector has reason to believe that foot and-mouth disease exists on premises in a district (hereinafter referred to as the infected premises), he shall forthwith cause the owners or occupiers of the adjoining farms, as many persons as possible in the district and the Director to be notified of the suspected outbreak and the quarantine measures which are to be complied with in the area in which such disease is believed to exist. 4. A veterinary officer or veterinary inspector shall display or cause to be displayed quarantine notices on public roads entering the infected area, and shall require the owner or manager of the infected premises to display similar notices at the entrance to the infected premises. 5. A veterinary officer or veterinary inspector may issue such instructions as in his opinion are necessary to prevent the spread of the disease to other animals on the infected premises, or in other portions of the infected area, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may require such measures as he may consider necessary to be taken in regard to the disinfection of animals (other than cattle, sheep and pigs, which shall not, except under the proviso to rule 7, be allowed to leave any infected premises or any premises in the infected area), vehicles and persons before such animals, vehicles or persons may leave any infected premises. 6. The power to issue stock movement permits, other than by a veterinary officer or veterinary inspector, shall be suspended in any infected area for such period as the veterinary officer or veterinary inspector may specify. 7. In any infected area all public stock sales shall be cancelled by any magistrate, veterinary officer or veterinary inspector, and any stock movement permit which may have been issued in respect of such area shall forthwith cease to be valid: Provided that a veterinary officer or veterinary inspector may, in his discretion, and subject to such conditions as he may impose, issue a permit sanctioning the movement of a limited number of slaughter stock to places within or without the infected area. 8. Any person who contravenes any order, instruction or requirement issued by a veterinary officer or veterinary inspector under these Rules shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months or to both.