Animal Contagious Diseases (Prohibition of Imports) Order (Cap. 246)

ANIMAL CONTAGIOUS DISEASES [CH.246 – 3 LRO 1/2008 STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS CHAPTER 246 ANIMAL CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ANIMAL CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (PROHIBITION OF IMPORTS) ORDER (SECTION 13) [Commencement 26th August, 1976] 1. This Order may be cited as the Animal Contagious Diseases (Prohibition of Imports) Order. 2. No person shall import into The Bahamas from any country other than Canada or the United States of America, any raw wool, raw hair, raw bristle, untanned hide, uncured skin, bone, hoof or horn of any animal except with the written permission of the Director of Agriculture first obtained and in accordance with such conditions as the Director of Agriculture may see fit to impose. 3. No person shall import into The Bahamas from any country any semen of any animal except with the written permission of the Director of Agriculture first obtained and in accordance with such conditions as the Director of Agriculture may see fit to impose. 4. No person shall import into The Bahamas any meat or any by-product of meat, other than any canned cooked meat or any canned cooked by-product of meat, from any country declared by the Director of Agriculture by Notice in the Gazette to be a country in which foot and mouth disease or rinderpest is known or suspected to be present. 5. No person shall import into The Bahamas any eggs of any domestic poultry for hatching in The Bahamas, unless such eggs are certified by the competent authority of the country, of their origin to be from poultry free from Newcastle disease, fowl pest, fowl typhoid, pullorum disease and ornithosis. S.I. 98/1976 Title. Raw wool, hair, bones, etc. Semen. Meat. Poultry.