Power to regulate inter-State trade and to control transport of livestock and birds and things which may spread diseases

(1) The Government, for the purposes of preventing the outbreak or spread of any schedule disease, may, by notification, prohibit or regulate in such manner, and to such extent, as it may think fit,- (a) the bringing or taking into Himachal Pradesh or any specified place therein of any livestock or birds, alive or dead, or of any parts of livestock or birds, or of any kind of fodder, bedding or other thing which may, in its opinion, carry infection ; (b) the removal from any specified part of Himachal Pradesh of any such livestock of birds, parts of livestock or birds, or things. (2) The Government may, by notification, specify the season or seasons during which and the route or routes by which livestock or birds may be imported into Himachal Pradesh and no person shall import livestock or birds into Himachal Pradesh otherwise than during the season and by the route so appointed. (3) The Government may establish quarantine stations for the inspection and detention of such livestock or birds along the route appointed under sub-section (2). (4) The period of detention of livestock or birds at a quarantine station for the purpose of inspection, vaccination, if necessary, marking and issuing of a permit for the release of livestock or birds from the station shall be such as may be prescribed by the Government. (5) The livestock or birds so detained shall remain under the care of the person in charge who shall be responsible for their feeding and upkeep and for the payment of fee for their vaccination and marking as may be prescribed by the Government.