(1) The 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 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.
(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 State Government may, for the purpose of preventing the outbreak or spread of rinderpest in or from any area, by notification in the 5[Telangana Gazette],-
(a) direct that all animals in such area or any class of such animals shall be compulsorily inoculated in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed or such directions as may be specified in the notification;
5. Substituted for the words “Andhra Pradesh Gazette” by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
Power to inoculate and regulate movement of animals and to control the holding of markets, fairs etc., and traffic in infective animals, etc.
Veterinary Surgeons and Inspectors.
Central Act 45 of 1860.
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(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 State or any part thereof, the removal from such area into any other area in the 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 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 State,-
(i) the holding of animal markets, animal fairs, animal exhibitions or other concentrations of animals; or
(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 State Government, carry infection.
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 postmortem examination of any animal which at the time of its death was infective or is suspected to have been then Duty of certain persons to report rinderpest.
Power of Veterinary Surgeon to hold postmortem.
4 [Act No.XIX of 1940] infective and for this purpose he may cause the carcass of any such animal to be exhumed.