Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![CHAPTER 57. An Act to consolidate the Contagions Diseases (Animals) A.n.^i894. Acts, 1878 to 1893. [25th August 1894.] HE it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and JD with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : Central and Local Authorities„ Powers oP Board of 1. The powers and duties conferred and imposed by this Act on Agriculture the Board of Agriculture as regards England and Wales and Scot- w'ales] and land, shall be executed and discharged by the Board in manner Scotland. provided by the Board of Agriculture Act, 1889, and this Act. ^2 3]q°3 Vlct 2. The local authorities in this Act described shall execute Local and enforce this Act and every order of the Board of Agriculture to^xccute so far as the same are to be executed or enforced by local Act. authorities. 3. The local authorities in England and Wales shall be— Local authorities (i) for each borough not being a borough to which section in England Upo fhp and Wales. 51 &52 Vict. c. 41. thirty-nine of the Local Government Act, 1888, applies, borough council; (ii) for the residue of each administrative county, the county council. Provided that the mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London, acting by the mayor, aldermen, and commons of that city in common council assembled, shall be the local authority for the city of London, and shall be the local authority in and for the county of London for the purpose of the provisions of this Act relating to foreign animals.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2241695x_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
