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                                    Appendix E.

The Glanders and Farcy Act, 1899, with Notifications and Rules
                                    thereunder.

                            ACT No. XIII OF 1899.

      PASSED BY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA IN
                                    COUNCIL.

Received the assent of the Governor General on the 20th March, 1899.

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Glanders and
Farcy.

WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to
Glanders and Farcy; It is hereby enacted as follows : —

Short title,
extent and
commence-
ment.

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

Defination 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 Governor General
in Council may, by notification in the Gazette of India, 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
asses and mules.

Application
of Act to
local areas by
Local Gov-
ernment

3. The Local Government may, by notification in the local official
Gazette, apply this Act, or any provision of this Act, [so far as all or any of
the diseases mentioned in or specified in a notification under Section 2, Sub-
section (I), are concerned to any local area], to be specified in such
notification, within the Province.

Local Gov-
ernment to
appoint In-
spectors.

4. (1) When this Act has been so applied to a local area, the Local
Government 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 the local area, or such portions thereof
as it may prescribe, the powers conferred and the duties imposed by this
Act on such officers.

X. L. V. of
1860.

(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
Inspector 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.