(1) The owner or occupier of any place declared to be an infected place under section 5(4) shall—
(a) prevent access of any other animal to any part of the place, which has been exposed to infestation by any other animal infested with a prescribed disease or suspected of being so infested; and
(b) detain on the place any animal infested with a prescribed disease or suspected of being so infested, and detain any other animal which has been in the same shed, stable, building, yard or field with any such animal.
(2) A person shall not in relation to any animal suffering from a prescribed disease or suspected animal—
(a) expose any such animal in any market, fair, sale, yard or in any other place where animals are exposed for sale;
(b) place any such animal in any place adjacent to any market, fair, sale, yard or other place at which animals are exposed for sale;
(c) carry, lead or drive or cause to be carried, led or driven, on any highway, road or thoroughfare, any such animal exposed for sale;
(d) place, keep or graze, or permit to be placed, kept or grazed any such animal, on the sides of any public road, or on any land adjoining a public road which is unfenced or insufficiently fenced; or
(e) allow any such animal to stray on to a public road or on the sides thereof or to be on any land not enclosed or in any field or place which is insufficiently fenced.
(3) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence.
(4) In addition to any penalty imposed against any person convicted of an offence against this section, every animal found in any place in contravention of the provisions of this section may be moved by or at the directions of the Veterinary Authority to some convenient place and there detained and isolated.
(Inserted by Act 15 of 1994)