Anthrax Regulations (Cap. 67:02)

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS www.legalaffairs.gov.tt Animals (Diseases and importation) Chap. 67:02 31 ANTHRAX REGULATIONS ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS REGULATION 1. Citation and commencement. 2. Notification of anthrax. 3. Service of notice. 4. Dnti es of owner or occnpi er of i nfecteci pl ::ice. 5. Movement of animal, carcase, etc. 6. Burning and burying of carcase. 7. Opening pit, etc. 8. Skinning, opening or mutilating carcase. 9. Milk from affected animal. 10. Cleru1Sing w1d disinfection. 11. Exposing, etc. animal affected. 12. Vaccination, inoculation, etc. of animal. B. Penalty. SCHEDULE. UPDATED TO DECEMBER 31ST 2009 [Sn b•idiary] L.R .0. 112006 MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS 32 Chap. 67:02 LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO www.legalaffairs.gov.ti Animals ( Diseases and importation) [Suh~idiary J 28/1955. Citation and commencement. Notification of anthrax. Service of notice. Form A. Schedule. ANTHRAX REGULATIONS made under section 13 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Anthrax Regulations, and shall come into force on 15th March 1955. 2. (1) Every person having in his possession or under his charge any animal affected with, or suspected of being affected with anthrax, or the carcase of an animal so affected or suspected, shall with all practicable speed give notice of the animal 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 carcase of any animal, is of opinion or suspects that the animal is, or was when it died or was slaughtered, affected with anthrax, shall with all practicable speed give notice of the affection or suspicion of affection to the constable in charge of the nearest police station. (3) The constable upon receiving any such notice shall­ (a) forthwith transmit the information by telephone to the Inspector; and (b) as soon as may be practicable thereafter confirm in writing to the Inspector the transmission by telephone of the information. 3. (1) The Inspector shall, upon receipt of any information pursuant to regulation 2(3), f01thwith cause a notice in the form set out as Form A in the Schedule to be served upon the occupier of any premises whereon the animal is. (2) The Inspector shall immediately after the service of the notice referred to in subregulation (1) proceed to the place to which the notice refers, make a full investigation of all the circumstances and make a report thereon to the Chief Technical Officer (Agriculture) . UPDATED TO DECEMBER 31ST 2009 LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS www.legalaffairs.gov.tt Animals ( Diseases and importation) Chap. 67:02 33 Anthrax R egulntions [Snb•idiary] (3) The Inspector may give directions in relation to the steps which shall be taken in dealing with any animal affected with anthrax and with any other animal, vehicle, utensil, implement, fodder, litter, dung or other thing within the infected place and the occupier of every such infected place shall comply with the directions. (4) A notice under subregulation (1) shall remain in force until withdrawn by a withdrawal notice in the form set out as Form Bin the Schedule. 4. The owner or occupier of any infected place shall­ ( a) prevent access of any other animal (i) to any animal or carcase 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 carcase 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 a five per cent solution of Jeyes fluid or carbolic acid or such other antiseptic as the Inspector may in any particular case authorise any place where the animal or carcase has lain or where its blood or body discharges have escaped. Form B. Schedule. D uties uf uw nc:l or occupier of infected place. 5. (1) No animal shall be moved into, or out of, an infected Movement of nnunaJ, c nrcn=,o, place, except in accordance with the terms of a permit in writing etc. granted by the Inspector. (2) No animal shall be allowed to stray into or out of an infected place. UPDATED TO DECEMBER 31ST 2009 L.R .0. 112006 MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO www.legalaffairs.gov.ti 34 Chap. 67:02 Animals ( Diseases and importation) [Suh~idiary J Burning and burying of carcase. Opening pit, etc. Skinning, opening or mutilating carcase. Milk from affected animal. (3) No carcase, litter, dung, fodder, utensil, pen, hurdle or other thing 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 the Inspector. 6. The carcase of every animal which dies within an infected place shall (a) within twelve hours of death, be burnt within the infected place as near to the place where the animal died as practicable; or (h) be buried with lime within the infected place in a pit not less than seven feet deep and the pit shall be dug as near to the place where the animal died as practicable and shall in no case be less than one hundred feet from any dwelling house, river, well, watercourse, drain or other channel. 7. No person, except in accordance with the terms of a permit in writing granted by the Inspector, shall open any pit in which the carcase of any animal has been buried pursuant to regulation 6 or dig up or remove the carcase or any pa1t thereof. 8. No person shall skin, open or in any way mutilate the carcase of any animal which died or is suspected to have died from anthrax except that this regulation does not apply to any autopsy or diagnostic examination performed hy, or on the instrnctions of, the Inspector. 9. No milk obtained from any animal affected with. or suspected of being affected with, anthrax shall be used as food either for human beings or for animals and any container in which the milk has been shall be thoroughly sterilised before being used for any other purpose. UPDATED TO DECEMBER 31ST 2009 LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS www.legalaffairs.gov.tt Animals ( Diseases and importation) Chap. 67:02 35 Anthrax Regulntions [Snb•idiary] 10. Every occupier of an infected place shall at his own c 1~ansin~ and expense and in such manner as the Inspector shall direct, cleanse d1Stnfect1on. 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) eve1y utensil, pen, hurdle or other thing used in connection with any animal affected with, or suspected of being affected with, anthrax. 11. (1) No person shall, in relation to any animal affected Exposing, etc., with, or suspected of being affected with, anthrax- ammal affected. (a) expose the animal in any market, fair, sale yard or in any other place at which animals are exposed for sale; (h) place the 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 the animal or cause it to be sent or carried by rail, canal, inland navigable water or on any coasting vessel; ( d) cany, lead or drive the animal or cause it to be carried, led or driven, on any highway or thoroughfare; ( e) place, keep or graze the animal or permit it to be placed, kept or grazed, on the sides of any public road or on any land adjoining a public road which is unfenced or insufficiently fenced; (j) allow the animal to stray on to a public road or on to the sides thereof or to be on unenclosed 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 this regulation may be moved by or at the direction of the Inspector to some convenient place and there detained and isolated. UPDATED TO DECEMBER 31ST 2009 L.R .0. 112006 MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO www.legalaffairs.gov.ti 36 Chap. 67:02 Animals ( Diseases and importation) [Suh~idiary J Vaccination, inoculation, etc. nf::mim:::11 Penalty. 12. (1) Eve1y owner of any animal within an infected place shall, if required by the Inspector and at his own risk and expense, cause the animal to be vaccinated, inoculated or otherwise treated in such manner and with such substances as the Inspector may direct. (2) Every such owner shall comply with the directions as the Inspector may from time to time give with regard to the care, management and method of handling any such animal during and subsequent to the time of the vaccination, inoculation or other treatment. (3) Eve1y such owner shall from time to time report to the Inspector the number of animals which have been vaccinated, inoculated or otherwise treated and the report shall indicate the respective numbers of each type of animal and the date upon which each such animal was so treated. 13. Any person who contravenes these Regulations or any directions lawfully given, or the terms of any permit lawfully imposed by any person under the authority of these Regulations i~ liabk on ~ummary (.;UH v i(.;Liun Lu a ptmtlly of out thousand dollars. UPDATED TO DECEMBER 31ST 2009 LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS www.legalaffairs.gov.ti Animals ( Diseases and importation) Chap. 67:02 37 Anthrax R egulntions SCHEDULE ANTHRAX REGULATIONS NOTICE DECLARING AN INFECTED PLACE Whereas notice has been received that there is (or has been) an animal (or carcase) which is affected with, or is suspected of being affected with, anthrax, at the premises known as ......... . and situated in the Ward of ................................. in the County of ....................... ............................ . Now, therefore, I hereby give you notice as the occupier of the aforesaid premises that the premises specified in the Schedule below are hereby declared to be an infected place and that until this notice is withdrawn or revoked by Order of the Minister it is unlawful for any person Dated this (a) to move any animal into or out of the infected place except in accordance with the terms of a permit in writing granted by the Inspector; (11) co allow any animal co come Jn contact or be associated with any animal affected with, or suspected of being affected with, anthrax . . day of ...... . . ..................... , 20 ..... . (SiRIUJtCt/V!) .................................................... . Inspector SCHEDULE Description of Infected Place Premises Ward County .FORM B ANTHRAX REGULATIONS WITHDRAWAL NOTICE To .................................................... ~ ............................................................... ................. . . I .............. ........................................ of ................................. ............................ ........ .......... being the Inspector designated under the Animals (Diseases and Importation) Act, do hereby withdraw, as from the ......... . day of .... ................... , 20 ..... . the notice relating to premises in your occupation :it ........................................................... d:ited tho ............ . d:iy of ............................ , 20 ...... signod by ............ and served upon you on the ........... day of.. ........................... , 20 ..... . Dated this ............. day of ..................... , 20 .. (Sixnarure) .................................................... . Inspector UPDATED TO DECEMBER 31ST 2009 [Sn b•idiary] Regulation 3. Regulation 3. L.R .0. 112006