42                       Appendix E.—(Contd.)

Glanders & Farcy.

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
Practitioner 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.

Horse to be
destroyed if
found diseas-
ed: otherwise
restored.

8.(1) If the Veterinary Practitioner certifies in writing that the horse
is diseased, the Inspector shall cause the same to be immediately destroyed:

Provided that, in the case of any disease other than Glanders or Farcy,
horses certified to be diseased as aforesaid, may, subject to any rules which
the Local Government may make in this behalf, be either destroyed or
otherwise treated or dealt with as the Veterinary Practitioner may deem
necessary.

(2) If, after completing the examination, the Veterinary Practitioner
does not certify that the horse is diseased, the Inspector shall at once deliver
the same to the person entitled to the possession thereof.

When horse
diseased,
place where
it has been
to be disin-
fected, etc.

9.(1) When any diseased horse has been in any building, shed or
other enclosed place, or in any open lines, the Inspector may issue a notice
to the owner of the building, shed, place or lines, or to the person in charge
thereof, directing him to have the same disinfected and the internal fittings
thereof, or such other things found therein or near thereto, as the Local
Government may by rule prescribe, destroyed.

(2) On the failure or neglect of such owner or other person as
aforesaid to comply with the notice within a reasonable time, the Inspector
shall cause the building, shed, place or lines to be disinfected and the
fittings or other things to be destroyed, and the expense (if any) thereby
incurred may be recovered from the owner or other person as if it were a
fine.

Owner or
person in
charge of
diseased
horse
to give
notice.

10. The owner or any person in charge of a diseased horse shall give
immediate information of the horse being diseased to the Inspector or to
such authority as the Local Government may appoint in this behalf.

Prohibition
against re-
moval, with-
out license,
of horse
which has
been with
diseased
horse.

11. No person in charge of any horse which has been in the same
field, building or place as, or in contact with, a diseased horse, shall remove
such horse except in good faith for the purpose of preventing infection, or
under a license to be granted by the Inspector and subject to the conditions
of the license.