Section 49
Anti-rabies vaccination of dog
(1)
The Director, whenever it appears to him to be expedient, may make an order which in this section referred to as an Anti-Rabies Vaccination Order that all dogs within an area or any part thereof specified in such order, shall be submitted to anti-rabies vaccination, and may at any time cancel such order.
(2)
The Anti-Rabies Vaccination Order and the cancellation shall be published in the Gazette.
(3)
The Anti-Rabies Vaccination Order shall remain in force until 31 December of the year in which the order was made or until its cancellation, whichever period shall be the shorter, but without prejudice to the making of a further Anti-Rabies Vaccination Order to take effect upon the expiry of the period.
(4)
Whenever an Anti-Rabies Vaccination Order has been made a veterinary authority may give directions as to the periods of time within which, and the places at which dogs, or groups of dogs, shall be produced for the purposes of such vaccination.
(5)
Such direction shall be published in such manner as the veterinary authority considers necessary.
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(6)
The Director may, by notification in the Gazette, require that every dog which has been vaccinated in accordance with an Anti-Rabies Vaccination Order shall, after such date as may be specified in such notification, at all times during the continuance in force of the Order and within the area to which the Order applies, carry upon it a serially numbered metal badge or mark, tag or other evidence of vaccination, and any dog found within such area after the date specified in the notification, whether at large or not, which does not carry the proper evidence of vaccination may be destroyed.
(7)
A veterinary authority may authorise in writing any person to destroy dogs in accordance with the provisions of subsection (6).
(8)
If any owner of a dog fails to comply with the order made under subsection
(1)
or direction given under subsection (4) a veterinary authority may immediately destroy such dog.
(9)
Any owner of a dog who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the order made under subsection (1) or direction given under subsection (4) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.
(10)
The Director may prescribe fee for the vaccination of a dog.