The act as amended deprives the Department of Agriculture of the power of
suspending altogether the prohibition against the importation of cattle
alive into the United Kingdom; but in no way affects their importation
and slaughter on landing (as has been the practice with American cattle
since 1879), under the provisions of Schedule III of the act of 1894,
which remain in force; provided always that foot and mouth disease, or
rinderpest, shall not have been declared to exist in the country from
which the cattle are exported.
Of course there is always a possibility of an increased stringency in the
regulations applicable to cattle after landing and before
slaughter—which might so interfere with the trade that profitable
importation would be well-nigh impossible, but no change in the existing
regulations has, up to the present time, occurred.
Diseases of Animals Act, 1896.
(59 & 60 Vict.)
(Ch. 15.)
Chapter 15.—An act to amend the diseases of animals act, 1894.
(20th July, 1896.)
Be 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:
1. (1) For section twenty-four of the diseases of animals act, 1894,
shall be substituted the following section, namely:
“The provisions set forth in Part I (slaughter at port of landing) of
the third schedule to this act shall apply to all foreign animals
other than—
- (a)
- Foreign animals, the landing of which is for the time
being prohibited by order of the board of agriculture;
and
- (b)
- Foreign animals intended for exhibition or other
exceptional purposes, and the landing of which is allowed
for the time being by the board, subject to the provisions
of Part II (quarantine) of the third schedule to this
act.”
(2) Section twenty-six of the diseases of animals act, 1894, is
hereby repealed.
2. This act shall come into operation on the first day of January
next after the passing hereof.
3. This act may be cited as the diseases of animals act, 1896, and
shall be construed as one with the diseases of animals act, 1894,
and that act and this act may be cited together as the diseases of
animals acts, 1894 and 1896.
Section 24 of the diseases of animals act, 1894,
amended by the diseases of animals act, 1896.
foreign animals.
24. The provisions set forth in Part I (slaughter at port of landing)
of the third schedule to this act shall apply to all foreign animals
other than—
- (a)
- Foreign animals the landing of which is for the time being
prohibited by order of the board of agriculture;
- (b)
- Foreign animals the landing of which is allowed by order
of the board without being subject to the provisions of this
act to slaughter or quarantine; and
- (c)
- Foreign animals intended for exhibition or other
exceptional purposes, and the landing of which is allowed
for the time being by the board subject to the provisions of
Part II (quarantine) of the third schedule to this
act.
Section 26 of the diseases of animals act, 1894,
repealed by the diseases of animals act, 1896.
foreign animals.
26. In relation to foreign animals other than those the landing
whereof is for the time being prohibited by order of the board of
agriculture, and other than those brought from the Channel Islands
or the Isle of Man, if and so long as the board are satisfied with
respect to any country out of the United Kingdom or any specified
part of such country that the laws thereof relating to the
importation and exportation of animals, and to the prevention of the
introduction or spreading of disease, and the general sanitary
condition of animals therein, are such as to afford reason able
security against the importation therefrom of diseased animals, the
board, by order, shall allow animals, or any specified kind of
animals, brought from that country, or such part to be landed
without being subject to the provisions of the third schedule to
this act, as to slaughter or quarantine, and may for that purpose
alter or add to those provisions as the case may require.
Provided, that the admission of such animals shall be subject to such
regulations as to the route by which the animals are conveyed to
this country, quarantine, or otherwise, as the board of agriculture
may by order direct.
The third schedule, Part I, referred to in sections
24 and 26 of the diseases of animals act, 1894, and in section 1 of
the diseases of animals act, 1896.