Swine Fever Regulations

Belize Agricultural Health Authority [CAP.211 407 CHAPTER211 SWINE FEVER REGULATIONS ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 1. Short title. 2. Notification of disease 3. Notification of infected places. 4. Prohibition of movement of swine. 5. Confinement to infected place or area. 6. Straying swine to be destroyed. 7. Disposal ofcarcass. 8. Exhumation of carcass prohibited. 9. Disposal of dung, etc., from infected swine. 10. Cleansing of sty, pens, etc .. 11. Isolation of contacts. 12. Isolation of swine on adjoining premises in infected area. 13. Carcass of contacts to be destroyed. 14. Compensation for swine shot or destroyed. 15. Penalty. THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE [ Prin.ted by the Governm.ent Printer, ] No. I Power Lane, Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. REVISED EDITION 2003 408 CAP. 211] Belize Agricultural Health Authority Short title. Notification of disease. 1. 2. CHAPTER211 SWINE FEVER REGULATIONS (Section 11) These Regulations may be cited as the SWINE FEVER REGULATIONS. (1) Every person ( a) having in his possession or under his charge any swine affected with, or suspected to be affected with, swine fever, or the carcass of any swine so affected or suspected, or (b) who suspects by reason of the appearance or behaviour of any swine ( the ownership of which cannot be immediately established) that such swine is or was at the time of its death affected or suspected, of being affected with swine fever, shall, within twenty-four hours, give notice of such swine 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 swine or the carcass of any swine, is of opinion or suspects that such swine is or was when it died or was slaughtered affected with swine fever, shall within twenty-four hours give notice of the affection or suspicion of affection to the constable in charge of the nearest police station. 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 (3) Every such constable upon 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 F ormA in the Schedule to these Regulations to be served upon the occupier of any premises whereon such animal is. (2) The Chief Agricultural Officer shall immediately afterthe seivice 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 swine fever and with any other animal, vehicle, utensil, implement, fodder, litter, dung orotherthing (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. 409 Notification of 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. 410 CAP. 211] Belize Agricultural Health Authority Prohibition of movement of swme. Confinement to infected place or area. Straying swine to be destroyed. Disposal of carcass. Exhumation of carcass prohibited. 4. No swine nor the carcass of any swine nor any portion of such carcass shall be moved out of or into, or from place to place within any infected place or area except in accordance with the terms of a permit in writing by an inspector. 5. All swine within an infected place or an infected area shall be kept confined in a sty, pen or other enclosure, unless an inspector in writing otherwise directs. 6. Any swine straying into or out of or from place to place within an infected place or an infected area may, in the discretion of an inspector or constable in charge of the nearest police station, be shot or otherwise destroyed. 7. (1) The carcass of any swine ( a) destroyed pursuant to regulation 6 of these Regulations, or (b) which died of swine fever, or (c) which died within an infected place or an infected area, shall be burnt or buried within six hours of the death of such swine, in the infected place or infected area from or into which it strayed or in which it died, by the owner or occupier of such place. (2) Where the carcass of any such swine is buried it shall be buried at a depth of not less than five feet below the surface of the ground. 8. No person shall exhume or dig up the carcass of any swine nor any portion thereof which is buried within an infected area except in accordance with the terms of a permit in writing granted by an inspector. 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 9. ( 1) No dung of any swine, nor any food, fodder, litter or utensils used in connection with any swine in any infected place or infected area shall be moved out of such infected place or infected area. (2) Any such dung, food, fodder, litter orutensils shall be burnt or buried or otherwise treated, dealt with, or disposed of, by the owner thereof, as an inspector may in any particular case direct. 411 Disposal of dung, etc., from infected swine. 10. Every part of every sty, pen or other enclosure where any swine affected Cleansing of with, or suspected of being affected with, swine fever has been kept or isolated sty, pens, etc.• shall be cleansed and treated by the owner thereof in such manner as an inspector may in any particular case direct. 11. (1) Any swine which, within a period of thirty days, has been in Isolation of contact with any swine affected with swine fever shall be isolated by the person contacts. in charge of such swine, and kept confined in a sty, pen or other enclosure for a period of not less than thirty days after the death or destruction of the last of such swine affected with swine fever unless the inspector in writing otherwise directs. (2) For the purposes of paragraph ( 1) of this regulation, every person who has disposed of any swine which has been in contact with swine affected with swine fever, shall, upon being so required by an inspector, disclose the name and address of any person to whom such swine was disposed of and the place at which such swine was delivered or the destination to which it was consigned. (3) The Chief Agricultural Officer or the inspector may order that any swine within any infected place or infected area shall at the risk and if so determined, at the expense of the owner be immunized against swine fever by vaccination or otherwise. ( 4) All swine immunized pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of this regulation shall be isolated from other swine by the person in charge THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE [ Prin.ted by the Governm.ent Printer, ] No. I Power Lane, Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. REVISED EDITION 2003 412 CAP. 211] Belize Agricultural Health Authority Isolation of swine on adjoining premises in infected area. Carcass of contacts to be destroyed. Compensation for swine shot or destroyed. Penalty. of such swine and kept confined for such period as may be specified by the inspector. 12. Persons in charge of swine on separate premises within an infected place or infected area shall isolate them from swine on adjoining premises within or upon the boundaries of such infected place or infected area, unless the inspector in writing otherwise directs. 13. The carcass of any swine which has within seven days immediately preceding the date of its slaughter been in contact with any other swine affected with or suspected of being affected with swine fever may be seized and destroyed by an inspector. 14. An inspector may order that (a) any infected swine in an infected place or area shall be shot, or otherwise destroyed without compensation to the owner of the said swine; (b) all other swine in an infected place or area which in his opinion have or have had direct contact with infected swine, shall be shot or otherwise destroyed and compensation shall be paid from general revenue to the owner, equal to the full and current value of the swine so destroyed. 15. Any person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these 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. 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. To Belize Agricultural Health Authority SCHEDULE FORMA Notice Dejzning Infected Place of i of [CAP.211 (Reg. 3 (1)) being an Inspector appointed under the Animals (Diseases and Importation) Act, hereby give you notice as the occupier of the under-mentioned premises that the said premises are hereby declared to be an infected place and to become subject to the provisions of the Swine Fever Regulations. Description oflnfected Place Premises District Dated this day of , 20 (Title) ........................................ . 413 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. 414 CAP. 211] Belize Agricultural Health Authority 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 dayof , 20 , signed by and served upon you on the Dated this THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE dayof dayof , 20 , 20 (Title) ....................................... .. [ Printed by the Government Printer,] No. 1 Power Lane, Belmopan, by the authority of the Government of Belize. REVISED EDITION 2003