SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT IN RELATION TO SLAUGHTER

PART IPOWER TO SLAUGHTER

Pleuro-pneumonia:2

1

The Department shall cause to be slaughtered all F2susceptible animals affected with pleuro-pneumonia.

2

The Department may in any case cause to be slaughtered—

a

any F3susceptible animal suspected of being affected with pleuro-pneumonia; and

b

any F3susceptible animal which are or which have been in contact with F3susceptible animal affected with pleuro-pneumonia, or which appear to the Department to have been in any way exposed to the infection of pleuro-pneumonia.

3

Where the Department has decided that any F4susceptible animal is to be slaughtered under this paragraph, the Department shall, if the owner of such F4susceptible animal by notice so requires, cause the same to be slaughtered within twenty-one days after the receipt of the notice.

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In this paragraph, “susceptible animal” means animal of the genus Ovis, Capra, Gazella, Bison, Bos or Bubalus, or of the species Syncerus cafer.