Contagious Diseases (Animals) (Pleuro-pneumonia) Act 1890

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1890 c. 14
Year1890


Contagious Diseases (Animals) (Pleuro-pneumonia) Act, 1890

(53 & 54 Vict.) CHAPTER 14.

An Act for conferring further Powers under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts, 1878 to 1886, with respect to Pleuro-pneumonia.

[4th July 1890]

B E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and 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:

S-1 Slaughter by Board of Agriculture in cases of pleuro-pneumonia, and payment of compensation.

1 Slaughter by Board of Agriculture in cases of pleuro-pneumonia, and payment of compensation.

(1)1.—(1.) The Board of Agriculture shall cause to be slaughtered all cattle affected with pleuro-pneumonia.

(2) (2.) The Board of Agriculture may, if they think fit, in any case cause to be slaughtered:—

(a .) any cattle suspected of being affected with pleuro-pneumonia; and

(b .) any cattle which are or which have been in the same field, shed, or other place, or in the same herd or otherwise in contact with cattle affected with pleuro-pneumonia, or which appear to the Board to have been in any way exposed to the infection of pleuro-pneumonia.

(3) (3.) There shall be paid such compensation for animals slaughtered under this section as is specified in section twenty-one of the principal Act .

(4) (4.) Where the Board of Agriculture have decided that any head of cattle is to be slaughtered under this section, the Board shall, if the owner of such head of cattle by notice in writing so require, cause the same to be slaughtered within twenty-one days after the receipt of such notice.

(5) (5.) The Board of Agriculture may, for the purposes of the execution of this Act, employ such additional inspectors, valuers, and other persons, and at such remuneration, and may incur such expenses as, subject to the sanction of the Treasury, they think necessary.

S-2 As to expenses of Act in Great Britain.

2 As to expenses of Act in Great Britain.

(1)2.—(1.) For the purposes of this Act, so far as the same relates to Great Britain, there shall be opened an account at the Bank of England (in this Act referred to as the Cattle Pleuro-pneumonia Account for Great Britain).

(2) (2.) There shall be paid to the said Account:

(a .) such moneys (not exceeding one hundred and forty thousand pounds in any one year) as may be provided by Parliament towards defraying the costs of the execution of this Act in Great Britain; and

(b .) all sums received by the Board of Agriculture on the sale of the carcases of cattle slaughtered under this Act, after deducting any amounts payable to the owners of such cattle under the third sub-section of section thirty of the principal Act.

(3) (3.) The costs of the execution of this Act in Great Britain shall be paid by the Board of Agriculture out of the moneys standing to the Cattle Pleuro-pneumonia Account for Great Britain.

(4) (4.) If in any financial year the money standing to that Account is insufficient to defray the costs of the execution of this Act in Great Britain, the Local Government Board and the Secretary for Scotland shall, out of the Local Taxation Account and the Local Taxation (Scotland) Account respectively, pay to the Cattle Pleuro-pneumonia Account for Great Britain in the proportions provided by this Act, such additional sums as may be certified by the Board of Agriculture to be required for defraying such costs.

S-3 Information by inspector of local authority.

3 Information by inspector of local authority.

3. The inspector of the local authority who has made a declaration and served a notice under section sixteen of the principal Act, shall, in addition to...

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