✨ Regulations on Diseased Cattle
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PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
VOL. XII.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1864. [No. 7.
PROCLAMATION.
Further Regulations under the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.”
IN pursuance of the power vested in me in that behalf, I, ROBERT GRAHAM, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, do hereby make and ordain the following Regulations to be in force in that portion of the Province of Auckland proclaimed to be an infected district within the meaning of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.”
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The said proclaimed district shall, for the purposes of the said Act, be called and known as the “Auckland District.”
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No person shall drive, or permit to be driven, any cattle infected or otherwise over or along any Public road or highway in any district proclaimed under the said Act, unless he shall have first obtained a certificate under the hand of some Inspector appointed under the said Act certifying that such cattle are not infected. Every such certificate shall describe the cattle therein referred to with a reasonable degree of certainty: Provided that such certificate shall only remain in force for a period not exceeding 24 hours. Any person offending against this Regulation shall forfeit and pay any penalty not exceeding £500.
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Any person who shall knowingly or wilfully drive over or along any road or highway cattle which may be infected with any infectious or contagious disease, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £500.
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Any person who shall knowingly keep in his possession or on his premises any cattle so infected and shall not give notice to some Inspector appointed under the said Act, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding £500.
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It shall be lawful for any Inspector appointed under the said Act to enter upon all or any lands in any district which may have been declared to be an infected district in pursuance of the said Act, for the purpose of inspecting any cattle which may be on such lands; and if any such Inspector shall find any cattle on such lands infected as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for him to give notice thereof to the owner of any such cattle, or the person having charge of the same, or the occupier of the lands on which such cattle may be running or depasturing, and shall at the same time require any of such persons to forthwith destroy any such cattle, and to bury or burn the carcasses thereof to the satisfaction of such Inspector. And if any person being thereto lawfully required shall refuse to carry out such direction or requisition, or shall neglect to do so within a reasonable time after being so required, he shall forfeit and pay any penalty not exceeding £500.
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If any person shall refuse or neglect to kill or bury any such Cattle as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for any Inspector duly appointed under the said Act to take such steps as to him shall seem fit for destroying such Cattle, and burying the carcasses thereof, and all costs, charges, and expenses incurred by any such Inspector in killing or burying any such Cattle shall be paid by the person so neglecting or refusing to kill or bury such
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1864, No 7
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- ROBERT GRAHAM, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Auckland