Title : Glanders and Farcy Act, 1899
State : Central
Year : 1899
THE GLANDERS AND FARCY ACT, 1899 [Act, No. 13 of 1899] [20th March, 1899] PREAMBLE An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Glanders and Farcy. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to glanders and farcy. It is hereby enacted as follows:-- View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Short Title and Extent
State : Central
Year : 1899
(1) This Act may be called the Glanders and Farcy Act, 1899. (2) It extent to the whole of India except1[the territories which, immediately before the 1stNovember, 1956, were comprised in Part B States] [The word ''and'' and sub-section (3) rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914, (10 of 1914), Section 3 and Schedule II.] _______________________ 1. Substituted for the words "Part B States by 2 A.L.O. 1956. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Definition of Diseased
State : Central
Year : 1899
(1) In this, Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, ''diseased'' means affected with glanders or farcy or any other dangerous epidemic disease among horses which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf [Certain words rep.by the Repealing Act, 1927 (12 of 1927).] (2) the provisions of this Act relating to horses shall apply also to [Inserted by Act 9 of 1920, section 2] [camels], asses and mules. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Application of Act to Local Areas by State Government
State : Central
Year : 1899
[Substituted by section 3, ibid., for the original section.] (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, apply this Act or any provision of this Act to any local area, to be specified in such notification, within the State. (2) In any such notification the State Government may further direct that the Act or any provision so applied shall apply in respect of--- (a) all or any of the diseases mentioned or specified in a notification under section 2, sub-section (1), (b) all animals or any class of animals mentioned in section 2, sub-section (2).] View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : State Government to Appoint Inspectors
State : Central
Year : 1899
(1) when this Act has been so applied to a local area, the State government may, by notification in the Offical Gazette, appoint such persons aas it thinks fit to be Inspectors under this Act and to exercise and perform, within the whole of the local area or such portions thereof as it may prescribe, the powers conferred and the duties imposed by this Act on such officers. (2) Every person so appointed shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power of Entry and Search
State : Central
Year : 1899
Within the local limits for which he is so appointed, any such Inspector as aforesaid may, subject to such rules as the State Government may make in this behalf, enter and search any field, building or other place for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is therein any horse which is diseased. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power of Seizure
State : Central
Year : 1899
Within such limits as aforesaid, the Inspector may seize any horse which he has reason to believe to be diseased. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Horse to Be Examined by Veterinary Practitioner
State : Central
Year : 1899
(1) On any such seizure as aforesaid, the Inspector shall cause the horse seized to be examined as soon as possible by such Veterinary Practitioner as the State Government may appoint in this behalf : Provided that, when the Inspector is also a Veterinary Practitioner so appointed, he may make the examination himself. (2) For the purposes of the examination, the Veterinary Practitioner may submit the horse to any test or tests which the State Government may prescribe. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Horse to Be Destroyed if Found Diseased: Otherwise Restored
State : Central
Year : 1899
(1) If the Veterinary Practitioner certifies in writing that the horse is diseased, the Inspector shall cause the same to be immediately destroyed. Provided that, in the case of any disease other than glanders or farcy, horses certified to be diseased as a foresaid may, subject to any rules which the State Government may make in this behalf, be either destroyed or otherwise treated kor dealt with as the Veterinary Practitioner may deem necessary. (2) If, after completing the examination, the Veterinary Practitioner does not certify that the horse is diseased, the Inspector shall at once deliver the same to the person entitled to the possession thereof. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : When Horse Diseased, Place Where It Has Been to Be Disinfected, Etc.
State : Central
Year : 1899
(1) When any diseased horse has been in any building, shed or other enclosed place, or in any open lines, the Inspector may issue a notice to the owner of the building, shed, place or lines, or to the person in charge thereof, directing him to have the same disinfected and the internal fittings thereof, or such other things found therein or near thereto as the State Government may by rule prescribe, destroyed. (2) On the failure or neglect of such owner or other person as aforesaid to comply with the notice within a reasonable time, the Inspector shall cause the building, shed, place or lines to be disinfected and the fittings or other things to be destroyed, and the expense (if any) thereby incurred may be recovered from the owner or other person as if it were a fine. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section