Power to prohibit or regulate import, export or transport of animals and the holding of markets, fairs, etc.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Livestock Importation Act, 1898 (9 of 1898), the Government, for the purpose of preventing the outbreak or spread of any Scheduled disease, may, by notification in the Gazette,- (a) prohibit or regulate in such manner and to such extent as they may think fit- (i) the import, export or transport into, from or across the State or any specified place therein, of any animal, alive or dead, or of any part of an animal or of any kind of fodder, bedding or other things, which may, in their opinion, carry infection; (ii) the holding of animal markets, animal fairs, animal exhibitions or other concentration of animals in any specified area; and (iii) the sale of, or other traffic in, infective animals, alive or dead, or their products or any parts of animals which at the time of their death were infective or any fodder, bedding or other things used in connection with such animals which may, in their opinion, carry infection; (b) direct that in any area to be specified in the notification, all animals shall be compulsorily inoculated and marked in accordance with such rules as may be made in this behalf. (2) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, specify the season or seasons during which and the route or routes by which animals may be imported into the State; and no person shall import animals into the State except during the season or seasons and by the route or routes so specified. (3) The Government may establish quarantine stations along the route or routes specified under sub-section (2) for the inspection and detention of the animals imported into the State. (4) The period of detention of animals at a quarantine station for the purpose of inspection, vaccination where the animals are required to be vaccinated, marking and issuing of permits for the release of the animals may be such as may be prescribed. (5) The animals detained at a quarantine station shall continue to be under the care of the person who was in charge of such animals immediately before the detention; and such person shall be responsible for their feeding and upkeep and for the payment of such fee for their vaccination and marking as may be prescribed.