Power of Government to declare infected areas

(1) The Government on receipt of the report may — (a) confirm the declaration under sub-section (1) or (3) of section 11 or sub-section (1) of section 12, either with or without modification; or (b) cancel any such declaration. (2) Where the Government confirms any such declaration, either with or without modification, a notification shall be published in the Official Gazette defining the limits of the area to which the declaration with the modifications, if any, made therein, shall apply and declaring such area to be an infected area. (3) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, add to, amend, vary or rescind any notification published under sub-section (2) either on its motion or on a further report of the Veterinary Surgeon submitted to it. (4) On publication of a notification under sub-section (2) or (3), any place declared by the Inspector or the Veterinary Surgeon to be an infected place and not included in the infected area as defined in such notification shall cease to be an infected place and the Inspector shall give notice accordingly to the owner, occupier or persons in charge of such place. (5) The Inspector shall cause to be exhibited in some prominent place in the infected area and in the regional language thereof a copy of the notification issued under sub-section (2) or (3). (6) Where the Government cancels any declaration referred to in sub-section (2), any place specified in such declaration shall cease to be an infected place and the Inspector shall give notice accordingly to all persons to whom copies of such declaration were delivered or on whom notices of such declaration were served. (7) The Government may, subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, delegate all or any of its powers under this section to the Collector of a District; and thereupon all or, as the case may be, the relevant provisions of this section, shall apply in relation to such officer as they apply in relation to the Government.