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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 53

“Infectcd place” means any country, town, street,
place, or premises that may be declared by any
lawful authority to be infected with disease as here-
inbefore defined.

“Inspector” means any Cattle Inspector lawfully
acting or appointed under “The Diseased Cattle
Act, 1881,” and includes a Deputy-Inspector.

“Occupier” includes any owner or other adult person
who may be in charge or possession of any premises
as herein defined.

“Owner” means any owner, whether joint or several
(other than a mortgagee in possession), and in-
cludes the superintendent, manager, foreman, over-
seer, or person in possession or charge of, or any
consignee of, any cattle or stock.

“Premises” mean and include any station, run, pad-
dock, farm-yard, cow-house, stable, shed, building,
or place where cattle are depastured, kept, or
housed.

“The said Act” means “The Diseased Cattle Act,
1881.”

“Australasian Colonies” mean the Colonies of Queens-
land, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia,
Western Australia, and any other colony that may
hereafter be created within Australia, and includes
Tasmania and Fiji.

“Dog” means any dog, slut, or whelp of any breed or
age.

“Foreign,” as applied to stock, things, or vessels, means
any stock, thing, or vessel brought from any place
outside New Zealand other than any of the Aus-
tralasian Colonies as herein defined.

“Horses” means any one or more horses, mares, colts,
fillies, foals, asses, or mules.

“Infectcd,” as applied to stock, means any stock suffer-
ing from or actually affected with disease, or which
have been in direct or indirect contact with, or in
the same vessel as, such infected stock during the
then-preceding six months, or which have been
under treatment during such period for disease, or
dressed or disinfected for disease; and, as ap-
plicable to vessels or things, any vessels or things
with which any such infected stock shall have
come in contact within the then-preceding three
months.

“Imported” means brought into any port, town, or place
in the colony by any vessel, or by any lighter or boat
from such vessel, from any foreign district as herein
defined.

“Litter” means any straw, or other bedding or litter,
or any manure or other excreta, with which stock
shall have been in direct or indirect contact.

“Prescribed” means prescribed by any regulations made
under the said Act.

“Stock” means any one or more camels, cattle, deer,
or dogs, as above defined.

“Vessel” means any steamer, ship, lighter, launch,
boat, punt, or ferry-boat.

PART I.—STOCK FROM GREAT BRITAIN OR IRELAND.

2. If any stock are brought by sea from Great Britain or
   Ireland to a port or place in this colony, the owner thereof
   shall, within twelve hours of their arrival, give the Inspector
   at or near such port or place notice to the effect of Form 1
   hereto.

3. No stock shall be imported from Great Britain or Ire-
   land except under the following conditions and restrictions,
   namely:—

(a.) They must be accompanied by a declaration, to the
effect of Form 2 hereto, by their owner or breeder,
that they are free from disease, and were so at the
time of shipment to New Zealand.

(b.) They must have been taken direct from the place from
which they start to the port of shipment, and if they
do not travel on foot they must have been conveyed in
a goods-wagon, and not placed in any conveyance,
stable, or other place where animals infected, as
defined by these regulations, are or have been.

(c.) Except in the case of horses, they must have been
shipped at the Port of London.

(d.) They must be certified to be free from disease at the
time of shipment, to the effect of Form 3 hereto, by a
registered veterinary surgeon appointed by the Agent-
General in London for that purpose.

(e.) Except in the case of horses, they must be landed only
at the Port of Lyttelton or at the Port of Wellington.

(f.) The captain or master of the importing ship must
make a declaration to the satisfaction of the Inspector
as to the health of all animals on board during the
voyage.

(g.) No goats or deer shall be imported except for
zoological gardens, or to the order of any registered
acclimatisation society.

PART II.—FOREIGN STOCK AND THINGS.

4. Foreign stock which may lawfully be landed in this
   colony shall, previous to landing, be forthwith examined on
   board the vessel by which they arrived, by a duly-qualified
   veterinary surgeon and by an Inspector, who shall join in a
   certificate to the effect of Form 4 hereto.

5. Foreign horses shall be admitted without detention or
   quarantine if found, on inspection by a duly-qualified
   veterinary surgeon, to be free from disease.

6. Any foreign stock, other than horses, arriving at a New
   Zealand port, but not intended to be landed, shall, if found
   on examination by or under the direction of an Inspector to
   be free from disease, be removed to quarantine or other safe
   place approved by the Inspector, and there detained at the
   expense of the owner until the sailing of the ship; and, if
   the owner refuse to send such stock to such quarantine or
   to such place, they shall forthwith be destroyed on board
   on the order of an Inspector.

7. If foreign stock, other than horses, are not prohibited
   from being landed, and are found to be free from disease,
   and the Inspector is satisfied that they are free from disease,
   and that the requirements of this Act and these regulations
   have been complied with, he shall, on obtaining from the
   owner or consignee of such stock a bond duly executed by
   the owner or consignee and two approved sureties, in the
   terms of Form 5 hereto, grant an order for the removal of
   such stock to quarantine, to the effect of Form 6 hereto,
   without which no stock shall leave the vessel by which they
   arrived.

8. All foreign stock found on inspection to be free from
   infection shall, where necessary, before being removed from
   the vessel, be washed and disinfected as the Inspector shall
   direct, and shall be taken from the vessel by which they
   arrive in “the stream,” and previous to her coming to or
   near the wharf, and shall be conveyed by water, at the
   owner’s risk and expense, to the quarantine set apart for
   such foreign stock, and there kept at their owner’s risk and
   expense, and washed, dipped, and disinfected as the In-
   spector shall direct.

9. Foreign stock permitted to be introduced shall, on
   being landed, remain in quarantine for the periods specified
   in Form 7 hereto.

10. All foreign sheep landed in this colony shall forthwith
    receive one or more dippings, as the Inspector shall direct.

11. On the expiry of the prescribed term of quarantine
    for foreign stock they shall be examined by a duly-qualified
    veterinary surgeon and an Inspector, who shall ascer-
    tain whether the disinfecting and dipping or dressing
    prescribed by this Act and regulations, as well as all the
    other requirements thereof, have been complied with, and
    shall thereupon determine whether such stock are free from
    disease, and forthwith join in a certificate to the effect of
    Form 8 hereto; but such stock shall not leave quarantine
    until the charges and expenses due thereon shall have been
    paid to the Inspector, and until an order for their release
    shall have been issued by him.

PART III.—AUSTRALASIAN STOCK.

12. No stock shall be imported from any of the Australasian
    Colonies except under the following conditions, namely:—

(a.) They must be accompanied by a declaration to the
effect of Form 2 hereto, by their owner or breeder,
that they are free from disease, and were so at the
time of shipment to New Zealand.

(b.) They must have been taken direct from the place from
which they start to the port of shipment, and if they
do not travel on foot they must have been conveyed in
a goods-wagon, and not placed in any conveyance,
stable, or other place where animals infected, as
defined by these regulations, are or have been.

(c.) Except in the case of horses and dogs, they must have
been shipped at one of the following ports, namely:
Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Levuka,
and Hobart.

(d.) They must be certified to be free from disease at the
time of shipment by a registered veterinary surgeon.

(e.) Except in the case of horses and dogs, they must be
landed only at the ports of Auckland, Wellington,
Lyttelton, and Dunedin.

(f.) The captain or master of the importing ship must
make a declaration to the satisfaction of the Inspector
as to the health of all animals on board during the
voyage.

(g.) No Inspector shall authorise any stock brought by sea
from any place in any of the Australasian Colonies to
be introduced into New Zealand, unless upon the certi-
ficate of the Inspector or other officer charged with
the execution of the law relating to the prevention of
diseases among stock in the place whence the same
are brought, to the effect that such stock are the
produce of such colony, or have performed a quaran-
tine therein of not less than the periods prescribed
in Form 7 hereto with respect to such stock, and been