Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

13.   Regulations

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    (1)   The Minister may make regulations generally for the control and treatment of animal suffering from a prescribed disease or suspected animals and for the prevention and spread of disease. (Amended by Act 15 of 1994)

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    (2)   Regulations made under subsection (1) may, without prejudice to the generality of such power, make provision with regard to—

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      (a)     the adaptation and modification of the provisions of this Act in relation to any animals suffering from any particular disease;

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      (b)     the notices to be given by persons in possession or in charge of diseased animals in the case of any particular disease, or in the case of illness of any such animal, and the persons to whom such notices are to be given;

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      (c)     the notification to the public of infected places or infected areas and the removal of anything into, within or out of such places or areas, and the cleansing or disinfecting of such places or areas;

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      (d)     the movement of persons into, within or out of infected places or infected areas, and the prevention of the spread of disease by persons in contact with diseased or suspected animals;

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      (e)     the treatment, disinfecting, destruction, burial, disposal, and digging up, of anything in or removed from an infected place or infected area;

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      (f)     the movement, isolation, segregation, treatment, slaughter, destruction, disposal, burial, seizure, detention, and exposure for sale, of diseased or suspected animals;

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      (g)     the removal, transport, treatment, isolation, examination, testing, cleansing, disinfecting, protection from suffering, exposure for sale, exhibition, or marking, of animals;

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      (h)     the removal, transport, treatment, examination, cleansing, and disinfecting of carcasses, fodder, litter, dung and other things;

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      (i)     the cleansing, disinfecting, and examination, of places used by, and vehicles used for the transport of, animals; or

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      (j)     the fees and expenses incurred for any purpose for which regulations may be made under this section, and the persons by whom they are to be paid, and the manner in which they may be recovered.