Section 84

to prescribe all matters relating to licenses, permits and certificates;

to regulate the landing of any animal, bird, animal product, bird product, carcass, fodder, litter, dung or any article or substance from conveyance;

to prescribe the examination of any animal, bird, animal product, bird product, carcass, dung or any article or substance on importation, the procedures to be applied and the measures to be taken;

to prescribe the cleansing or disinfection of buildings, sheds, places or conveyance in which diseased animal or bird or contaminated animal product, bird product, carcass, fodder, litter, dung or any article or substance, receptacle or package have been kept or carried;

to prescribe the cleansing or disinfection of markets, sale yards, railway premises and railway vans or trucks wherein any diseased animal or bird or any contaminated animal product, bird product,

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carcass, fodder, litter, dung or article or substance, receptacle or package have been kept or carried;

to prescribe the disinfection of animal, bird, animal product, bird product, carcass, fodder, litter, dung or any article or substance, receptacle or package which have been in an infected area;

to prescribe the disinfection of persons and the clothing of persons who have been in contact with or employed about diseased or suspected of disease animal or bird or contaminated animal product, bird product, carcass, fodder, litter, dung or any article or substance, receptacle or package;

to prescribe the seizure, disinfection and, if expedient, the destruction, with or without compensation, of fodder or litter, or other articles which have been in contact with any diseased animal or bird or any contaminated animal product, bird product or carcass or which are reasonably suspected of being a vehicle for spreading disease;

to provide the placing of conveyance carrying any animal, bird, animal product, bird product, carcass, dung or any article or substance in quarantine;

to regulate the movement of animals or birds within the State;

to prescribe fees and charges payable under this Enactment;

to regulate the packing or canning activities of meat, milk or egg;

to regulate the tannery activities;

to regulate the cold storage facilities for animal product or bird product;

to regulate the slaughterhouses, meat processing plants, milk processing plants or egg processing plants;

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to regulate procedures for veterinary inspection of meat, milk, egg or animal product or bird product in slaughterhouses, processing plants, packing plants or canning plants;

to provide the management of any establishment processing solid waste or waste water originating from animals or birds or rendering of wastes;

to regulate the livestock farms, breeding centres, hatcheries and places in which animals or birds are kept in captivity for sale, export, exhibition or other purposes;

to regulate the licences, control, supervision, and inspection of places in which animals or birds are or may be kept in captivity for sale, export or exhibition, recreation or sports, research or scientific experiments and such rules may -

prescribe the conditions to which animals or birds may be so kept;

to prescribe the improvement of disease control measures;

to prescribe the licensing, control and supervision of the establishment of animal artificial breeding centres;

to prescribe the offences that may be compounded; and

to all matters and things required or authorized by this Enactment to be prescribed or provided, for the carrying out of, or giving full effect to, the provisions of this Enactment.

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