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Credit: Diseases of Animals Act, 1894. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Power for detention of vessels. [Ch. 57.] Diseases of Animals Act, 1894. [57 & 58 Vicx.] (b) that the carcase of a diseased or suspected animal is or has been kept, or has been buried, destroyed, or otherwise disposed of; or (c) that there is to be found any pen, place, vehicle, or thing in respect whereof any person has on any occasion failed to comply with the provisions of this Act, or of an order of the Board of Agriculture, or of a regulation of a local authority ; or (d) that this Act or an order of the Board or a regulation of a local authority has not been or is not being complied with. (3.) An inspector may at any time enter any pen, vehicle, vessel, or boat in which or in respect whereof he has reasonable grounds for supposing that this Act or an order of the Board or a regu- lation of a local authority has not been or is not being complied with. (4.) An inspector entering, as herein-before by this section authorised, shall, if required by the owner, or occupier, or person in charge of the land, building, place, pen, vehicle, vessel, or boat, state in writing his reasons for entering. (5.) A certificate of a veterinary inspector to the effect that an animal is or was affected with a disease specified in the certificate shall for the purposes of this Act be conclusive evidence in all courts of justice of the matter certified. (6.) An inspector of the Board shall have all the powers of an inspector throughout England or that part thereof for which he is appointed, and in addition to the powers herein-before conferred upon inspectors, an inspector of the Board may at any time, for the purpose of ascertaining whether pleuro-pneumonia foot-and-mouth disease or swine-fever exists, or has within fifty-six days existed, in any shed, land, or other place, enter such shed, land, or place. 45.—(1.) Where an inspector of the Board of Agriculture is satisfied that this Act or an order of the Board or a regulation of a local authority has not been or is not being complied with on board a vessel in a port, then, on the representation in writing to that effect of the inspector, stating particulars of non- compliance, the vessel may be detained until the Board otherwise direct. (2.) The ^officer detaining ihe vessel shall forthwith deliver to the master or person in charge of the vessel a copy of the representation.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2241695x_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
