PREVENTION OF SWINE FEVER REGULATIONS

PREVENTION OF SWINE FEVER

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 36.19

PREVENTION OF SWINE FEVER REGULATIONS

9th November, 1965

LEGAL NOTICE 59 of 1965.

The title of these Regulations is Prevention of Swine Fever

Regulations.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise

requires -

"Director" means the Director of Agriculture and includes any

officer of the Department of Agriculture duly authorised by him to

act on his behalf;

"swine" means any number of pigs and includes one pig;

"disease" means swine fever;

"pig breeder" means a person who owns, tends or deals with

swine.

(1) For the prevention of the spread of disease, the

Director may -

(a) require all pig breeders having under their care any

pigs over two months old to vaccinate any such pigs

against swine fever free of charge through the

government veterinary service in accordance with such

arrangements as may be made by the Director from

time to time;

(b) require the registration of swine of any age or of

certain specified ages in any area or areas in the form

and manner and at the time he considers expedient;

(c) require any pig breeder to give him all information

concerning the movements, including sales and

purchases, of the swine of his herd;

(d) prohibit the introduction of new swine in a place or

places recently infected with disease;

(e) at any reasonable time enter any sty or other place

where he has reasonable grounds for supposing that

animals are kept, for the purpose of -

(i)

inspecting swine kept therein;

(ii)

vaccinating and inoculating such swine as he

considers require vaccinating and inoculating to

prevent the spread of disease;

(iii) marking of swine, in such a way as he considers

expedient, for the purpose of their identification

even after their being slaughtered and scalded.

(2) Pig breeders shall provide all necessary assistance to the

Director for the discharge of his functions in accordance with the

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provisions of these Regulations.

(3) Pig breeders having in their care or possession swine

between two months and four months, shall notify the Director for

the purpose of their vaccination.

Any pig breeder who, at any stage, contravenes or fails to

comply with the provisions of these Regulations or who hinders or

obstructs the Director from doing anything that he may lawfully do

under the provisions of these Regulations shall be guilty of an

offence in accordance with Part II of the Prevention of Disease

Ordinance.