Power of Central Government to make regulations and rules

The East Punjab Livestock and Birds Contagious Diseases Act, 1948

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(1) The [Central Government], may make rules or regulations consistent with this Act for all or any of the following purposes, namely :—
- (a) to define the powers of entry and inspection of an Inspector under section 8 ;
- (b) to prohibit or regulate the holding of markets, fairs, exhibitions or other concentrations of [livestock or birds] under section 10 ;
- (c) to appoint places for the disinfection of vessels or vehicles under sub-section (2) of section 12, and for the isolation or segregation of [livestock or birds] under section 15 ;
- (d) to regulate post-mortem examination of [livestock or birds] under section 14, and the disposal of [livestock or birds] under sub-section (2),
(2) and (3) of section 17 ;
- (e) to provide for the determination of the compensation payable under section 18 ;
- (f) to regulate the exercise of the powers of the Veterinary Surgeon and Inspector under section 19 ;
- (g) to prescribe the authority referred to in sub-section (2) of section 21 and sub-section (2) of section 7 ; and sub-section (2) of section 22 ;
- (h) to prescribe the form and contents of the licences to be granted by an Inspector under section 24 and the circumstances under which they may be granted ;
  - (i) to prescribe scales of charges to be followed in certificates under section 27 for expenses incurred on behalf of an owner ;
- (j) to regulate the isolation, detention, treatment (including sterilization and inoculation), and disposal of [livestock or birds] which are infective or suspected of being infective, and the disposal of carcasses and parts of carcasses;
- (k) to regulate the duties and powers of Inspectors and prescribe their qualifications;
- (l) to prescribe the manner in which any report or note under the Act shall be made or given;
- (m) to prohibit or regulate the entry into [the Union territory of Chandigarh] or any specified part or parts thereof, and the movement from one place to another in the [Union territory of Chandigarh] of [livestock or birds] alive or dead or of any part of [livestock or birds] or fodder, bedding or other thing;
- (n) to prohibit or limit sale or traffic in infectious [livestock or birds] or carcasses of infective [livestock or birds];
- (o) to regulate the disinfection of vessels or vehicles used by common carriers, the cleansing or disinfection of buildings, yards and other places used for [livestock or birds,] and the destruction of infected matter or things found therein or near thereto;
- (p) to prescribe the tests to be applied to [livestock or birds] suspected of being infective;
- (q) to regulate the manner in which [livestock or birds] shall be destroyed, and the manner in which carcasses or parts of carcasses, foodder, bedding or other things seized under the Act shall be disposed of;
- (r) to prescribe the period of detention and the amount of fee for vaccination and marking at the inter-[State] quarantine stations.
(2) In making a rule under this section the [Central Government] may direct that a breach of it shall be punishable with fine which may extend in the case of a first conviction to one hundred rupees or in case of a second or subsequent conviction to five hundred rupees.

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