✨ Diseased Cattle Regulations




cattle within the said Infected District, and for preventing the further spread of the aforesaid disease.

  1. If any Inspector appointed under these Regulations, or otherwise under the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," shall at any time have reasonable grounds to suspect that any cattle within the infected district above referred to are infected with pleuro-pneumonia, it shall be his duty, and he is hereby authorised forthwith, or as soon as he conveniently can, to proceed to and enter into and upon the place, whether enclosed or otherwise, where such cattle are or are supposed by him to be, and by inspecting such cattle, or in any other manner, shall satisfy himself whether such cattle, or any of them, are infected, or may be reasonably suspected to be infected with pleuro-pneumonia, or whether the same are free from pleuro-pneumonia.

  2. If such Inspector shall be satisfied that such cattle, or any of them, are actually infected with pleuro-pneumonia, he shall forthwith give to the owner, or the person having the custody, charge, or possession of the said cattle, notice in writing of what cattle he deems actually infected with such disease; and such owner or person aforesaid shall, within twenty-four hours after such notice, destroy the cattle so deemed infected, and shall forthwith bury four feet under ground, or burn the carcasses of the cattle so destroyed; and if the owner or person having the custody or possession of the cattle deemed by the Inspector to be infected cannot readily be found, or if such owner or person neglect to destroy the cattle deemed infected after the receipt of the notice aforesaid, any Inspector for the said infected district may seize and destroy or cause to be seized and destroyed such cattle so deemed infected.

  3. If any owner of cattle, or any person having the custody or charge of cattle, shall, after having received such notice as aforesaid, neglect or refuse to destroy the same or any of them within twenty-four hours after such notice, such owner or person aforesaid shall be liable to a fine or penalty of Fifty Pounds for every head of cattle which he shall have neglected or refused to destroy.

  4. If any owner of cattle which any such Inspector as aforesaid has notified to be infected, or if any person having the custody, care, or possession of any such cattle, shall, after the same or any of them have been destroyed, neglect or refuse to bury four feet under ground, or burn the carcasses thereof, within twenty-four hours after the destruction thereof, such owner or person aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty of Ten Pounds for every carcass which he shall neglect or refuse to bury or burn.

  5. If any Inspector appointed under these Regulations, or otherwise under "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," shall suspect that any cattle within the said infected district are infected with pleuro-pneumonia, but shall not be satisfied that such cattle are actually infected, he may, if he think fit, give to the owner or the person having the custody, charge, or possession of such cattle, notice in writing of what cattle he suspects to be infected with pleuro-pneumonia, and shall, in and by such notice, order and require such owner or person having the custody, charge, or possession of such cattle to drive or cause to be driven the cattle mentioned in the said notice to such place within the said infected district as such Inspector shall think fit, and such Inspector may, in and by such notice, direct and fix by what roads and route the said cattle shall be driven; and if any person, being the owner of any cattle, or having in his custody, care, or possession, any cattle within the said infected district, shall, after the expiration of forty-eight hours after such last-mentioned notice has been served upon him or left at his usual place of business or residence, neglect or refuse to obey such order, or shall neglect or refuse to drive or cause to be driven the cattle mentioned in the said notice to the place and by the roads and route directed and fixed on by the said notice, such person shall be liable to a penalty of Ten Pounds for every head of cattle included in such last-mentioned notice; and after the expiration of the said period of forty-eight hours, it shall be lawful for any such Inspector, if such owner or person as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to obey such order, to seize and take into his possession the cattle included in such notice, and drive or cause to be driven the said cattle to the place and by the roads and route mentioned and fixed in the said notice.

  6. The Inspectors of diseased cattle under these Regulations and under the said Act shall forthwith cause to be publicly posted or exhibited at and about all the main thoroughfares leading into the said infected district, notices that the said infected district has been proclaimed and declared infected.

  7. If any person shall drive or remove, or cause to be driven or removed, or assist in driving or removing any cattle or any carcass or carcasses or any portion of any carcass or carcasses of any cattle out from the said infected district, such person shall be liable to a fine of Fifty Pounds for every head of such cattle or carcass so driven out or removed from the said infected district. And if any cattle stray out of or from the said infected district into a district not proclaimed to be infected, the owner or person having the care or possession of such cattle shall be liable to a fine of One Pound for every head of cattle which shall have so strayed out of such district.

  8. It shall be lawful for any Inspector appointed as aforesaid, or any Police Constable having any reasonable grounds to suspect that any cattle or any carcass or carcasses or any portion of any carcass or carcasses of any cattle are about to be driven or removed out from the said infected district to seize the same and take charge thereof until he shall be satisfied that no attempt will be made to drive such cattle out from the said infected district. And it



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1868, No 18





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🌾 Regulations for Diseased Cattle Act, 1861 (continued from previous page)

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
21 April 1868
Diseased Cattle Act, Pleuro-pneumonia, Infected District, Canterbury, Inspectors, Penalties