FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE (PREVENTION) REGULATIONS

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE (PREVENTION)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 36.05

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE (PREVENTION)

REGULATIONS

1st April, 1932;

22nd October, 1937;

24th December, 1937

GOVERNMENT NOTICES 103 of 1932 and 457 and 554 of 1937,

consolidated.

The title of these Regulations is Foot and Mouth Disease

(Prevention) Regulations.

In these Regulations, the expression "approved pen" means

any place approved in writing by the Principal Government

Veterinary Surgeon, in which cattle imported from abroad may be

kept.

Goats intended to be shipped to Gozo shall be conveyed to

the civil abattoir, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.,

and kept there at the risk and expense of the owner, until tested for

undulant fever.

Goats found to give a positive test shall not be allowed to

be exported; they shall be slaughtered, and compensation shall be

paid in terms of regulations in force. Goats found not to give a

positive test shall be so certified and shall be shipped to Gozo only

from the Jetties Wharf in the Grand Harbour.

Animals intended to be shipped to Gozo shall be conveyed

to the landing place at Jetties Wharf for inspection by the Principal

Government Veterinary Surgeon or his representative before

shipment.

If any animal is found to be affected with foot-and-mouth

disease, it may be removed to the quarantine station and kept there

under observation for such period at the Superintendent of Public

Health may require, or subjected to any other sanitary precautions

which that officer may see fit to impose.

All imported cattle shall be escorted from any approved

landing place to an approved pen or to the Lazzarretto.

All approved pens shall be kept in quarantine at the

expense of the owner and access thereto shall be allowed only to

persons provided with a written permit granted by the Principal

Government Veterinary Surgeon.

No cattle, offal, fodder, litter, or dung shall be removed

from any approved pen without the permission in writing of the

Principal Government Veterinary Surgeon who may refuse such

permission or grant permission under such conditions and

restrictions as he may deem fit.

All persons, animals, conveyances and utensils coming in

contact with the cattle shall be disinfected, as may be directed by

the Principal Government Veterinary Surgeon.