Section 2

“animal” means any living creature other than a human being and includes any beast, bird, aquatic animals or insect but does not include wildlife under the Wildlife

Conservation Enactment 1997 [No. 6 of 1997];

“building” includes any stable or enclosure, whether roofed or not, used for sheltering or confining any animal or any pen, cage, wall, gate, pillar, post, paling, frame, hoarding, fence, platform, roadway, path, steps, staging, slip, wharf, dock, piles, jetty, landing stage or bridge, or any structure connected with the foregoing;

“carcass” means the dead body of an animal and includes any part of the body whether separately or otherwise;

“conveyance” means any kind or description of vehicle, ship, aircraft or any other mode of transport whether by land, sea or air;

“Director” means the Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry;

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“Minister” means the Minister in charged with the responsibility for veterinary services and animal industry;

“owner” means any person who owns any animal and includes any person for the time being in charge of any animal and any person for the time being occupying any premises;

“premises” includes any house, building, hut, shed, structure, platform, plant, warehouse, container and land whether or not enclosed or built upon;

“quarantine station” has the meaning assigned to it under the Animal Enactment 2015;

“registered veterinary surgeon” has the meaning assigned to it under the Veterinary

Surgeons Act 1974 [Act 147];

“veterinary authority” means the Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry or any public officer authorized by him in writing to exercise any power under this

Enactment;

“veterinary centre” has the meaning assigned to it under the Animal Enactment 2015.