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bruneilawsby aturio
In force2022 Revised Edition
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Part · Prevention of Spread of Disease

37. Infected areas

(1)

Whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that any disease exists amongst any animal in any part of Brunei Darussalam, the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, declare that part to be an infected area and may in the order —

(a)

prohibit, either absolutely or conditionally, the removal of any animal or any specified kind of animal into or out of that area;

(b)

restrict the movement of persons and conveyance into, within or out of that area; and

(c)

take all reasonable measures consistent with public safety to remedy any dangerous condition or mitigate any danger to life, health, property or the environment that results, or may reasonably be expected to result, from the existence of a disease in that area.

(2)

When an area has been declared to be an infected area under subsection (1), the Director or an authorised officer may give the owner or person in charge of any animal in that area such written directions as the

Director or authorised officer may consider necessary to control and check the spread of the disease.

(3)

Directions issued under subsection (2) may —

(a)

regulate the tying-up, isolation, segregation, movement or slaughter of animals in the infected area; and

(b)

require the taking of any measure as may be specified by the

Director or authorised officer.

(4)

Any animal allowed to stray within an infected area or any animal or thing believed to have been removed from, moved within or taken into an infected area, in contravention of any written direction given under subsection (2), may —

(a)

be destroyed immediately by an authorised officer or any person acting under his direction; or

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(b)

be seized and detained until its forfeiture has been declared under the provisions of this Act.

(5)

No compensation shall be payable in respect of any animal so destroyed or seized under subsection (4).

(6)

Any person who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with any order given to him under subsection (1) or with any written direction given to him under subsection (2) is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or both.

(7)

This section does not apply to dogs and cats.

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Quarantine

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Offences and Penalties

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General

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