Tamil Nadu Rinderpest Act, 1940
No: 19 Dated: Dec, 17 1940
THE TAMIL NADU RINDERPEST ACT, 1940
(Tamil Nadu Act No. 19 of 1940)
An Act to provide for the prevention and control of rinderpest in the State of Tamil Nadu.
Whereas it is expedient to provide for the prevention and control of rinderpest in the State of Tamil Nadu ;
It is hereby enacted as follows :-
1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Rinderpest Act, 1940.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Tamil Nadu.
(3) This section shall come into force at once, and the State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Fort St. George Gazette apply all or any of the remaining provisions of this Act to the whole or any portion of the State of Tamil Nadu from such date and for such period, if any, as may be specified in the notification, and may cancel or modify any such notification.
2. Not apply to Rinderpest Act. - Nothing contained in the Tamil Nadu Cattle Disease Act, 1866 (Tamil Nadu Act II of 1866) shall apply to the disease of rinderpest in any area to which the provisions of this Act 1866 (Tamil Nadu Act II of 1866), have been applied by notification under sub-section (3) of section 1 so long as such notification remains in force.
3. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context
(a) "animal" means any camel, buffalo, bull, bullock, cow, heifer, calf, sheep, lamb, goat, kid, swine, or deer ;
(d) "infective animal" means any animal which is affected with rinderpest or has recently been in contact with, or in close proximity to, an animal so, affected; and
(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.
4. (1) The State Government may appoint any person they think fit to be a Veterinary Surgeon for the purposes of this Act within such local limits as they may assign to him.
(2) The State Government may appoint any person they think fit to be an Inspector for all or any of the purposes of this Act within such local limits as they may assign to him
(3) A Veterinary Surgeon shall within the local, limits assigned to him have all the powers of an Inspector under this Act, and may exercise such powers concurrently with his powers as Veterinary surgeon.
(4) Every person appointed under this section shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code (Central Act XLV of 1860).
5. Power to inoculate and regulate movement of animals and to control the holding of markets, fairs, etc., and traffic in infective animals, etc. - The State Government may for the purpose of preventing the outbreak or spread of rinderpest in or from any area, by notification in the Fort St. George Gazette,
(a) direct that all animals in such area or any class of such animals shall be compulsorily inoculated and marked with a prescribed mark in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed or such directions as may be specified in the notification ;
(b) prohibit or regulate in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed or as may be specified in the notification, the bringing into such area from any other area in the State or any part thereof, the removal from such area into any other area in the State or any part thereof, or the transport from one place to another in such area, of any animals alive or dead, or of any products of animals or of any parts of animals, or of any fodder, bedding or other thing used in connexion with animals which may, in the opinion of the State Government, carry infection ; or
(c) prohibit or regulate in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed or as may be specified in the notification in such area or any part thereof or any other area in the State--
(i) the holding of animal markets, animal fairs. animal exhibitions or other concentrations of animals ; or
(ii) the sale of, or other traffic in, infective animals or their products or the carcasses of animals which at the time of their death were infective, or any parts of such animals or any fodder, bedding or other thing used in connexion with such animals which may, in the opinion of the State Government, carry infection.
6. Duty of certain persons to report rinderpest. - Every owner or person in charge of, and every veterinary practitioner who has been called to treat, an animal which he has reason to believe to be affected with rinderpest shall forthwith report the fact to the inspector exercising powers in the area.
7. Power of Veterinary Surgeon to hold postmortem. - Subject to such rules as may be prescribed, the Veterinary surgeon may make or cause to be made a postmortem examination of any animal which at the time of its death was infective or is suspected to have been then infective, and for this purpose he may cause the carcass of any such animal to be exhumed.