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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 117

2. All the provisions of the said Act shall apply to dogs.
3. Rabies canina shall henceforth be considered a disease
   to which dogs are liable.
4. All dogs affected with such disease, and all dogs
   arriving from any place other than the Australasian Colonies,
   until such last-mentioned dogs have passed through and
   been released from quarantine, are hereby proclaimed to be
   diseased stock.
5. The introduction of any dog into the colony found to
   be suffering from disease is prohibited.
6. No dog from any place other than one of the Austra-
   lasian Colonies shall be landed in New Zealand except within
   one of the under-named ports, viz., Auckland, Napier, Port
   Nicholson, Nelson, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, the Bluff
   Harbour.
7. When any vessel arrives at any port or place in New
   Zealand from any place other than any of the Australasian
   Colonies having on board any dog, the master of the vessel,
   and every owner or person in charge of any dog on board any
   such vessel, shall cause every such dog to be securely chained
   up or otherwise confined so soon as the vessel enters New
   Zealand waters, and to be kept so securely chained up or
   otherwise confined as to be unable to bite any person or
   dog coming on board, until an Inspector, by writing under
   his hand, shall otherwise order.
8. The master of every such vessel shall, with the least
   possible delay, furnish the Inspector stationed at or near the
   port of arrival with a descriptive list in writing of each dog
   on board of his vessel, stating where the same was shipped,
   the name of the owner or person in charge thereof (if any)
   appearing to claim the same on board the vessel, or the
   name of the consignee (if any) of every such dog.
9. All dogs on board any such vessel shall be forthwith
   examined by a duly-qualified veterinary surgeon appointed
   by the Inspector; and, if such dogs are certified by the
   veterinary surgeon to be free from disease, the Inspector
   may grant a permit for the removal of such dogs by the
   owner or consignee to such quarantine ground as the In-
   spector may direct; and no dogs shall be removed from such
   vessel without permission in writing from an Inspector be
   first had and obtained by the owner or consignee.
10. All dogs imported into New Zealand showing symptoms
    of disease on arrival, or during the term of quarantine, shall
    be destroyed; or if any dog be not removed to a quarantine
    station as directed by an Inspector such dog shall be
    destroyed.
11. All dogs imported into the colony, except from one
    of the Australasian Colonies, shall remain in quarantine for
    a term of not less than six months from the date of arrival.
12. All dogs imported as aforesaid shall be under the
    supervision of the Inspector at the port of arrival, and shall
    not be removed either from the vessel by which they shall
    have arrived or from quarantine unless and until a permit
    for the removal of such dog or dogs shall have been first had
    and obtained by the owner or consignee from an Inspector.
13. All expenses of examination by veterinary surgeon,
    landing, removing to, maintaining, and keeping in quaran-
    tine and removing from quarantine of any dog, and all ex-
    penses in connection therewith, shall be borne by the owner
    or consignee of such dog; and the owner or consignee shall
    on demand deposit the estimated amount of such costs and
    expenses with the Inspector previous to any dog being landed;
    and when such dog shall die or be destroyed, or be delivered
    up to its owner or consignee, the Inspector shall render to
    such owner or consignee a full and true account of the money
    so deposited with him as aforesaid, and shall hand over the
    balance (if any) of such deposit to the depositor, his executors
    or administrators, or, failing such, shall pay it into the Pub-
    lic Account.
14. When any Inspector has caused any dog to be destroyed
    he shall give notice in writing to the owner or consignee
    thereof.
15. Any notice required to be given to the owner or consignee
    of any dog may be given by a registered letter to such owner
    or consignee at any address which such owner or consignee
    may have forwarded in writing to the Inspector, or, if such
    owner or consignee has not so forwarded any address, then
    by advertisement in a daily newspaper locally published.
16. Every master of a vessel who shall neglect to forward
    notice of the arrival of, or who shall land or attempt to land,
    or permit or suffer to be landed, any dog without a permit
    for such landing or removal from an Inspector first had and
    obtained, or who shall remove or attempt to remove, or
    permit or suffer to be removed, any dog from his ship or
    vessel to or from any other shpor vessel, whilst either of
    such ships or vessels shall be within New Zealand waters
    without permission from an Inspector, shall for every such
    offence forfeit and pay a penalty of £50.
17. Evere owner or consigue or person who shall land or
    attempt to lant, or assist or be in ane wa concerned in
    landing or transhipping or attempting to land or tranship,
    any dog from any before a permit shall have had
    and obtained from an Inspector for that purpose; or who shall
    refuse or neglect to remove any dog from any vessel to a
    quarantine ground on being directed by any Inspector so to
    remove such dog; or who shall remove or attempt to remove,
    or assist or be in any way concerned in removing, any dog
    from a quarantine ground, without a permit from an Inspector
    authorising such removal first had and obtained; or who shall.
    refuse or neglect to remove any dog from quarantine within
    twenty-four hours after an Inspector shall have granted a
    permit for such removal; or who shall refuse or neglect
    forthwith to obey any requisition, order, or direction under
    these regulations or any of them; or who shall obstruct or
    hinder any Inspector in the execution of any of his duties or
    powers under these regulations, shall forfeit and pay for every
    such offence a penalty of £50.
18. Every person being thereunto liable who shall neglect
    or refuse to pay on demand by an Inspector the cost, as re-
    quired by Regulation 13, of all expenses under these regula-
    tions, shall, for every day during which such neglect or refusal
    shall continue, forfeit and pay a penalty of £25.
19. No dog will be allowed on the quarantine ground ex-
    cept for the purpose of quarantine, and any dog found tres-
    passing on the quarantine ground shall be immediately
    destroyed.
20. No compensation or claim shall be allowed or payable
    to any person whatever for any dog destroyed under these
    regulations, or dying from any cause whilst in quarantine.
21. In so far as applicable the general regulations, and all
    fees, fines, and penalties thereby provided, shall apply to the
    detention, quarantine, destruction, or inspection of dogs.
22. All fees, fines, penalties, and other sums made payable
    under these regulations may be sued for and recovered in the
    manner provided by Regulation 21 of the said General Regu-
    lations: Provided that the Magistrate or any two or more
    Justices before whom any penalty hereby prescribed is sought
    to be recovered may, if he or they shall think fit, order a part
    only of such penalty to be paid.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for the Sale of Strychnine and Arsenic.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day
of November, 1883.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the seventeenth
day of October, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-three, certain regulations were made under "The
Sale of Poisons Act, 1871," respecting the sale of strychnine
and arsenic: And whereas it is expedient to amend the said
regulations:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities vested in him by "The Sale of Poisons Act,
1871," acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the
regulations made under the said Order in Council, and in
lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations following with
respect to the sale of the said poisons, and doth declare that
such regulations shall come into force and take effect on and
after the eighth day of November, one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty-three.

REGULATIONS.

1. "The Sale of Poisons Act, 1871," is hereinafter referred
   to as "the said Act."
2. It shall not be lawful for any person to sell or dispose of
   strychnine or arsenic in any quantities unless such person
   shall, previous to making the entry required by the provisions
   of the twelfth section of the said Act, obtain from the in-
   tending purchaser of such strychnine or arsenic a statutory
   declaration setting forth the particulars hereinafter men-
   tioned. Immediately upon completion of the purchase the
   seller of such poison shall forward such statutory declaration
   to the Registrar of the district appointed under the said Act:
   Provided that this regulation shall not apply to the sale of
   arsenic wholesale for use in the cure of diseases in sheep.
3. Every such declaration shall state precisely (1) the
   Christian name and surname of the intending purchaser at
   full length, together with his or her occupation and address;
   (2) the exact quantity and name of the poison required; and
   (3) the express purpose or purposes for which such poison
   is alone intended to be used, and the places or localities
   where the same is to be used or deposited respectively.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
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