(1) The 3[State] Government may appoint any person they think fit to be a Veterinary Surgeon for the purposes of this Act within such local limits as they may assign to him.
(2) The 3[State] Government may appoint any person they think fit to be an Inspector for all or any of the purposes of this Act within such local limits as they may assign to him _____________________________________________________________________
1. This expression was substituted for the expression ‘’State of Madras’’ by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws Order, 1969, as amended by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws (Second Amendment) Order 1969.
2. These words were substituted for the word “Madras’’ by ibid.
3. This word was substituted for the word "Provincial ': by the Adaptation Order of 1950.
2{Tamil Nadu] Act II of 1866 [Tamil Nadu] Act II of 1866, o apply to Rinderpest.
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(3) A Veterinary Surgeon shall within the local ,limits assigned to him have all the powers of an Inspector under this Act, and may exercise such powers concurrently with his powers as Veterinary surgeon.
(4) Every person appointed under this section shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code.
5. The 1[State] Government may for the purpose of preventing the outbreak or spread of rinderpest in or from any area, by notification in the Fort St.
George Gazette,
(a) direct that all animals in such area or any class of such animals shall be 2[compulsorily inoculated and marked with a prescribed mark] in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed or such directions as may be specified in the notification ;
(b) prohibit or regulate in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed or as may be specified in the notification, the bringing into such area from any other area in the 3[State] or any part thereof, the removal from such area into any other area in the 3[State] or any part thereof, or the transport from one place to another in such area, of any animals alive or dead, or of any products of animals or of any parts of animals, or of any fodder, bedding or other thing used in connexion with animals which may, in the opinion of the l [State) Government, carry infection ; or
(c) prohibit or regulate in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed or as may be specified in the notification in such area or any part thereof or any other area in the 3 [State]--
(i) the holding of animal markets, animal fairs. animal exhibitions or other concentrations of animals ; or ______________________________________________________________________
1. This word was substituted for the word “Provincial" by the Adaptation Order of
1950.
2. These words were substituted for the words “compulsorily inoculated” by section 2 of the Tamil Nadu Rinderpest (Amendment) Act, 1964 (Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1964).
3. This word was substituted for the word ‘’Provincial” by the Adaptation Order of
1950.
Central Act XLV of 1860 Power to inoculate and regulate movement of animals and to control the holding of markets, fairs, etc., and traffic in infective animals, etc.
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(ii) the sale of, or other traffic in, infective animals or their products or the carcasses of animals which at the time of their death were infective, or any parts of such animals or any fodder, bedding or other thing used in connexion with such animals which may, in the opinion of the 1[State] Government, carry in-fection.
6. Every owner or person in charge of, and every veterinary practitioner who has been called to treat, an animal which he has reason to believe to be affected with rinderpest shall forthwith report the fact to the inspector exercising powers in the area.
7. Subject to such rules as may be prescribed, the Veterinary surgeon may make or cause to be made a post-mortem examination of any animal which at the time of its death was infective or is suspected to have been then infective, and for this purpose he may cause the carcass of any such animal to be exhumed.