Anthrax Prevention Act, 1919

Provision as to disinfection of infected goods.

2.(1) A Secretary of State may provide, maintain, and carry on, or arrange for the provision, maintenance, or carrying on, at such ports or other places in the United Kingdom, as he thinks proper, the necessary works for the disinfection of infected goods, and may make rules providing for the payment by importers of infected goods of fees in respect of the disinfection thereof, and in respect of services rendered in connection with such disinfection, and for the recovery of such payments.

(2) Any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in carrying this Act into effect, up to such an amount as the Treasury may approve, shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.