(1) Whereby any notice, requisition, or order made under this Act or under any rule or notification issued thereunder, any person is required to take any measures or to do Cleansing and disinfection of vessels and vehicles.
Power to require disinfection of infected premises, vessels or vehicles.
Power of Veterinary Surgeon to hold postmortem.
Duty of certain persons to report scheduled disease.
Duty of person in charge to isolate infective animals.
Keeping or grazing infective animals prohibited.
Bringing of infective animals in market, etc., prohibited, Disposal of carcass of infective animals.
Disinterring without lawful authority carcass of animal prohibited.
Powers of entry and inspection.
Enforcement of orders and recovery of expenses.
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anything in respect of any property owned or occupied by him or in his charge, a reasonable time shall be specified in such notice, requisition or order within which such measures shall be taken or such things shall be done.
(2) If such measures are not taken or such thing is not done within the time so specified, the authority issuing the notice, requisition or order may cause the measures to be taken or the thing to be done at the cost of the person required to take the measures or to do the thing.
(3) The cost of any measures taken or thing done under sub-section (2) shall be recoverable from the person concerned in the manner provided by the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, for the recovery of fines imposed by a Court as if such cost were a fine imposed by a Court.
27. If any question arises under this Act whether or not an animal is an infective animal, the question shall be decided by the Veterinary Surgeon and his decision shall be final.
28. Whoever—
(i) fails to comply with or contravenes the terms of any notification issued under section 5, or fails to carry out any requisition made, or direction given, by or under the said section, or
(ii) fails to carry out any direction specified in, or contravenes the terms of, any notification issued under section 6 or imports any animal in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (2) thereof, or
(iii) fails to feed or look after the upkeep of the animal under sub-section (4) of section 7 or fails to produce the permit under sub-section (5) thereof, or
(iv) fails to comply with an order made by an Inspector under sub-section (1) of section 8, or
(v) removes any animal or thing from an infected area or place in contravention of the provisions of section 14, or
(vi) fails to comply with any direction given by an Inspector or a Police Officer under section 15, or
(vii) fails to cleanse or disinfect any vessel, or vehicle used for removing animals in the manner prescribed as required under sub-section (1), or fails to cause any vessel or vehicle to keep stationary when required to do ' so under sub-section (2), of section 16, or
(viii) fails to comply with an order made by a Veterinary Surgeon under section 17, or
(ix) fails to report that an animal is infective as required by section 19, or
(x) fails to keep any animal separately as required by section 20, or
(xi) keeps or grazes any animal which he knows to be infective in contravention of the provisions of section 21, or
(xii) brings or attempts to bring any animal which he knows to be infective in contravention of the provisions of section 22, or
(xiii) disinters or causes to be disinterred the carcass or any part of the carcass of any animal which at the time of its death was infective or was destroyed on account of its being infective or suspected to be infective in contravention of the provisions of V of 1898.
Power of Inspector to decide whether or not animal is infective.
Penalties.
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section 24.
shall, on conviction, be punished in the case of a first conviction with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction whether under the same or any other clause of this section with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
29. Whoever places or causes or permits to be placed in any river, lake, canal or other water or in the sea within such distance from the shore, as may be prescribed the carcass or any part of the carcass of any animal which at the time of its death was infected or which was destroyed on account of its being infective or suspected to be infective, in contravention of the provisions of section 23 shall, on conviction, be punished, in the case of a first conviction with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees or with both, and in the case of a subsequent conviction with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both.