The Telangana Cattle-Disease Act, 1866
The Telangana Cattle-Disease Act, 1866
The Telangana Cattle Disease Act of 1866 regulates the control and containment of infectious illnesses among domestic animals like cattle, horses, sheep, and dogs. This law applies to livestock owners, keepers, and local authorities within designated areas of Telangana. It mandates reporting sick animals, establishes isolation pounds, and authorizes officials to inspect properties, disinfect premises, and humanely destroy infected stock. This legislation matters because it protects farming livelihoods, public health, and the agricultural economy by preventing rapid epidemic outbreaks of animal diseases through compulsory quarantine, strict sanitation measures, and financial penalties for noncompliance, safeguarding Telangana's overall livestock biosecurity and safety.
- 0. Preamble
- 1. This Act shall be put in force in such districts, or parts
- 2. The following words and expressions in this Act shall
- 3. Whenever this Act shall have been applied, as above
- 4. Magistrate.
- 5. On receiving notice as aforesaid, the keeper of the
- 6. If the keeper of the hospital-pound should be of
- 7. Every keeper of a hospital-pound, or person thereto
- 8. Every keeper of a hospital-pound, or person thereto
- 9. From the time when any animal affected as aforesaid is
- 10. The keeper of the hospital-pound, or other person
- 11. Should an animal impounded as aforesaid recover
- 12. No person having in his possession or under his
- 13. If any person who may be in charge of any animal at
- 14. Any person who shall fail to comply with the directions
- 15. In any district or part of a district in which this Act is in
- 16. Any person whose animals shall have been seized as
- 17. XXIV of 1859.
- 18. It shall be lawful for the State Government by notice
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