(1) Where by any notice, requisition or order under this Act or under any notification or rule issued thereunder any person is required to take any measures or to do 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 thing shall be done, as the case may be.
Powers of entry and inspection.
Power to return animals, etc., to infected areas.
Time for complying with and enforcement of orders.
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(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 expense of the person concerned.
18. Where any action is taken under section 17 or any other provision of this Act or any notification or rule issued thereunder in respect of any property at the expense of any person, the authority taking such action shall draw up a certificate stating the amount of the expenses incurred and the person from whom such amount is recoverable, and the amount specified shall be recoverable from such person as if it were an arrear of land revenue due by him.
19. Whoever,-
(a) fails to comply with or contravenes the terms of any notification issued under section 5, or
(b) fails to report that an animal is infective as required by section 6, or
(c) fails to comply with an order made by an Inspector under sub-section (1) of section 8, or
(d) being a common carrier, fails to cleanse or disinfect any vessel or vehicle used for the transport of animals in such manner as may be required under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 9, or
(e) fails to comply with an order made by a Veterinary Surgeon under section 10, or
(f) removes any animal or thing from any infected area or place in contravention of section 14, Recovery of expenses.
Penalties.
[Act No.XIX of 1940] 11 shall be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees in the case of a first conviction and to one hundred rupees in the case of a second or subsequent conviction whether under the same or any other clause of this section.
20. Whoever keeps or grazes in or on any forest, open field, roadside, or other enclosed land, to which other persons have a right of access for their animals, any animal which he knows to be infective, shall be punished with fine which may extend in the case of a first conviction to fifty rupees and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to one hundred rupees.
21. Whoever brings or attempts to bring into any market, fair, exhibition or other concentration of animals, any animal which he knows to be infective shall be punished with fine which may extend in the case of a first conviction to fifty rupees and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to one hundred rupees.
22. Whoever places, or causes or permits to be placed in any river, canal, or other water, or in the sea within such distance from the shore as may be prescribed, the carcass or part of the carcass of any animal which at the time of its death was infective or which was destroyed as being infective or suspected of being infective shall 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 second or 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.
23. Whoever, without lawful authority, disinters or causes to be disintered the carcass or part of the carcass of any animal which at the time of its death was infective or which was destroyed as being infective or suspected of being Penalty for keeping or grazing infective animal in unenclosed land.
Penalty for bringing infective animal to market.
Penalty for placing carcass of infective animal in river.
Penalty for disinterring carcass of diseased animal.
12 [Act No.XIX of 1940] infective, shall be punished with fine which may extend in the case of a first conviction to fifty rupees and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to one hundred rupees.
24. Any Police Officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector may, without an order from a Magistrate and without a warrant, arrest any person who has been concerned in an offence against any of the provisions of this Act relating to infective animals or to infected areas or places declared to be such under this Act.
25. No Magistrate shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act except upon the complaint or report of a Veterinary Surgeon.
26. No Magistrate shall try any offence under this Act unless he is 8[XXX] a Magistrate of the first class, or a Magistrate of the second class specially empowered in this behalf by the State Government.
27. No person shall be entitled to any compensation in respect of the destruction of any animal or thing or of any other loss, injury, detriment or inconvenience caused to him by reason of anything done under this Act in good faith.