(1) Where any area or place has been declared to be an infected area or place under the foregoing provisions of this Act no person shall, while such declaration remains in force, remove any animal, alive ________________________________________________________________
1. This word was substituted for the word "Provincial’’ by the Adaptation Order of
1950.
Removal of animals and - 11 1940: T.N. Act XIX) Rinderpest 837 or dead, or any product of an animal, or any part of an animal, or any fodder, bedding or other thing used in connexion with an animal, save in accordance with the conditions of a licence granted by the Inspector.
(2) Nothing in sub-section (I) shall prevent the Carriage by railway of any animal or thing referred to in that sub-section through an infected area or place:
Provided that where any such animal or thing while in transit through an infected area or place is unloaded therein, it shall not be removed there from save in accordance with sub-section (1).
15. Where any animal or thing is removed from an infected area or place otherwise than in accordance with a licence granted under section 14, any Inspector or Police Officer may require the owner or person in charge of such animal or thing to return it to such area or place:
Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the powers of an Inspector under section 8 to deal with infective animals.
16. Subject to such rules as may be prescribed, an Inspector may enter and inspect any land, building or other place or any vessel or vehicle, for the purpose of exercising the powers or performing the duties conferred or imposed on him by or under this Act.