Diseases of Animals Act, 1966

Orders relating to infected places and areas.

15.—The Minister may make orders—

(a) prescribing and regulating the publication, in relation to a place or area declared infected, of the fact of such declaration;

(b) prohibiting or regulating the movement of animals and poultry and persons into, within, or out of an infected place or area;

(c) prescribing and regulating the isolation or separation of animals and poultry being in an infected place or area;

(d) prohibiting or regulating the removal of carcases, eggs, fodder, litter, utensils, pens, hurdles, dung, or other things into, within, or out of an infected place or area;

(e) prescribing and regulating the destruction, burial, disposal, or treatment of carcases, eggs, fodder, litter, utensils, pens, hurdles, dung, or other things, being in an infected place or area, or removed thereout;

(f) prescribing and regulating the cleansing and disinfection of infected places and areas, or parts thereof, and of receptacles or vehicles used for the confinement or conveyance of animals or poultry;

(g) prescribing and regulating the disinfection of the clothes of persons being in an infected place, and the use of precautions against the spreading of disease by such persons.