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The Tamil Nadu Rinderpest Act, 1940

The Tamil Nadu Rinderpest Act, 1940

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The Tamil Nadu Rinderpest Act, 1940, provides a comprehensive legal framework to prevent, control, and eradicate rinderpest, a contagious viral disease affecting livestock such as cattle, buffaloes, goats, and sheep across Tamil Nadu. It applies to livestock owners, veterinary practitioners, common carriers, and local authorities. The law empowers government-appointed veterinary officers to order mandatory animal inoculations, quarantine infected animals, restrict animal movements and public markets, examine carcasses, and enforce premises disinfection. By penalizing illegal animal disposal, concealment, and unauthorized movement, the legislation safeguards agricultural livelihoods, food security, and public health from devastating livestock epidemics.

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  1. 0. Preamble
  2. 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
  3. 2. Tamil Nadu Act II of 1866, not to apply to rinderpest
  4. 3. Definitions.
  5. 4. Veterinary Surgeons and Inspectors.
  6. 5. Power to inoculate and regulate movement of animals and to control the holding of markets, fairs, etc., and traffic in infective animals, etc.
  7. 6. Duty of certain persons to report rinderpest.
  8. 7. Power of Veterinary Surgeon to hold post mortem.
  9. 8. Isolation of infective animals, examination by Veterinary Surgeon, etc.
  10. 9. Cleaning and disinfection of vessels and vehicles.
  11. 10. Powers to require disinfection of infected premises, vessels and vehicles.
  12. 11. Declaration of private infected places and examination of such places by Veterinary Surgeon.
  13. 12. Declaration of public infected places.
  14. 13. Declaration areas by the State Government
  15. 15. Power to return animals, etc., to infected areas.
  16. 16. Power of entry and inspection.
  17. 17. Time for complying with and enforcement of orders.
  18. 18. Recovery of expenses
  19. 19. Penalties.
  20. 20. Penalty for keeping or grazing infective animal in unenclosed land.
  21. 21. Penalty for bringing infective animal to market.
  22. 22. Penalty for placing carcass of infective animal in river.
  23. 23. Penalty for disinterring carcass of diseased animal.
  24. 24. Arrest without warrant.
  25. 25. Institution of proceedings.
  26. 26. Jurisdiction of Magistrates.
  27. 27. Bar of claim to compensation.
  28. 28. Bar of certain proceedings.
  29. 29. Limitation for certain suits and prosecutions.
  30. 30. Power to make rules.

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