Appendix VIII.                                               Glanders & Farcy Act.

                                  APPENDIX VIII.

                            (Referred to in para. 40.)

          GLANDERS AND FARCY ACT (NO. XIII OF 1899).

   Whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to
glanders and farcy; It is hereby enacted as follows :—

Short title and
extent.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Glanders and Farcy Act, 1899;
    (2) It extends to the whole of British India.

Definition of
" diseased."

2. (1) In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context " diseased " means affected with glanders or farcy or any other
dangerous epidemic disease among horses which the Local Government
may, by notification in the Local Official Gazette specify in this behalf either
generally or in respect of any local area.
(2) The provisions of this Act relating to horses shall apply also to camels,
asses and mules.

Application of
Act to local
areas by Local
Government.

3. (1) The Local Government may by notification in the local official
Gazette, apply this Act, or any provision of this Act to any local area, to be
specified in such notification, within the province.
(2) In any such notification the Local Government may further direct
that the Act or any provision so applied shall apply in respect of:—
      (a)  all or any of the diseases mentioned or specified in a notification
              under section 2, sub-section (1).
      (b)  All animals or any class of animals mentioned in section 2, sub-
              section (2).

Local Govern-
ment to appoint.
Inspectors.

4. (1) When this Act has been so applied to a local area, the Local Govern-
ment may, by notification in the local official Gazette, appoint such persons
as it thinks fit to be Inspectors under this Act and to exercise and perform,
within the whole of local area or such portions thereof as it may prescribe,
the powers conferred and the duties imposed by this Act on such officers.
(2) Every person so appointed shall be deemed to be a public servant
within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code.

Power of entry
and search.

5. Within the local limits for which he is so appointed, any such Ins-
pector as aforesaid may, subject to such rules as the Local Government may
make in this behalf enter and search any field, building or other place for the
purpose of ascertaining whether there is therein any horse which is diseased.

Power of seizure.

6. Within such limits as aforesaid, the Inspector may seize any horse
which he has reason to believe to be diseased.

Horse to be
examined by
Veterinary
Practitioner.

7. (1) On any such seizure as aforesaid, the Inspector shall cause the
horse seized to be examined as soon as possible by such Veterinary Prac-
titioner as the Local Government may appoint in this behalf:

Provided that, when the Inspector is also a Veterinary Practitioner so
appointed, he may make the examination himself.

(2) For the purposes of the examination the Veterinary Practitioner
may submit the horse to any test or tests which the Local Government may
prescribe.

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