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

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(1) The State Government or the Commissioner in his division may, for the purpose of preventing the outbreak or spread of any scheduled disease by notification in the Official Gazette, prohibit, control or regulate in such manner and to such extent as it or he may think fit—
- (a) the import, export or transport of any animals, or the carcasses thereof, or of any part of animals or carcasses thereof or of any fodder, bedding or other thing used in connection with animals, which may, in the opinion of the State Government or Commissioner carry infection, or
- (b) the holding of animal markets, animal fairs, animal exhibitions or other concentration of animals in any specified area, or
- (c) the sale or other dealings in, infective animals or the carcasses of, animals, which at the time of their death were infective, or any fodder, bedding or other thing used in connection which such animals which may, in the opinion of the State Government or Commissioner carry infection.
(2) The State Government or Commissioner may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the season or seasons during which and the route or routes by which animals may be imported into the State of Maharashtra, or as the case may be, into the division and no person shall import animals into the State of Maharashtra, or as the case may be, into the division otherwise than during the season and by the route so appointed.

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