Power to inoculate and regulate movement of animals and to control the holding of markets, fairs, etc., and traffic in infective animals, etc.

The State Government may for the purpose of preventing the outbreak or spread of rinderpest in or from any area, by notification in the Fort St. George Gazette, (a) direct that all animals in such area or any class of such animals shall be compulsorily inoculated and marked with a prescribed mark in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed or such directions as may be specified in the notification ; (b) prohibit or regulate in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed or as may be specified in the notification, the bringing into such area from any other area in the State or any part thereof, the removal from such area into any other area in the State or any part thereof, or the transport from one place to another in such area, of any animals alive or dead, or of any products of animals or of any parts of animals, or of any fodder, bedding or other thing used in connexion with animals which may, in the opinion of the State Government, carry infection ; or (c) prohibit or regulate in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed or as may be specified in the notification in such area or any part thereof or any other area in the State-- (i) the holding of animal markets, animal fairs. animal exhibitions or other concentrations of animals ; or (ii) the sale of, or other traffic in, infective animals or their products or the carcasses of animals which at the time of their death were infective, or any parts of such animals or any fodder, bedding or other thing used in connexion with such animals which may, in the opinion of the State Government, carry in-fection.