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“aircraft” includes any kind of craft which may be used for the conveyance of animals or birds by air;

“animal” includes horses, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, dogs, cats and any four-footed beast kept in captivity or under control, of any age or sex;

“animal quarantine station” means a quarantine station established under section 80;

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“bird” includes domestic fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowls and pigeons of any age or sex and their eggs;

“building” includes any house, hut, shed, stable or enclosure, whether roofed or not, used for sheltering or confining any animal or bird and 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;

“bull” means a male of any species of cattle;

“carcass” means the dead body of an animal or bird and includes any part thereof and the meat, bones (whether whole, broken or ground), offal, hide, skin, wool, hair, feathers, hoof, horns or other part of an animal or bird, separately or otherwise, or any portion thereof;

“cat” means a domesticated cat of any breed or sex;

“cattle” means bulls, cows, oxen, heifers and calves and includes buffaloes of any age or sex;

“contact” means any animal or bird which has by contact direct or indirect with a diseased animal or bird been exposed to the risk of contracting a disease;

“Director General” means the Director General of Veterinary

Services appointed under section 3 and includes the Deputy Director

General appointed under the same section;

“disease” means any disease infectious or contagious amongst animals or birds and includes anthrax, blackquarter, cattle plague

(rinderpest), contagious pleuro-pneumonia, contagious abortion, tuberculosis, epizootic lymphangitis, foot and mouth disease, glanders and farcy, goat pox, haemorrhagic septicaemia, rabies, sheep pox, swine fever, swine erysipelas, trypanosomiasis, avian pneumoencephalitis (Ranikhet disease), bacillary white diarrhea

(pullorum disease), fowl cholera, fowl plague, fowl pox, infectious laryngotracheitis and any other disease which the Minister may from

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time to time, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be a disease

within the meaning of this Act;

“dog” means a domesticated dog of any breed or sex;

“enforcement officer” means an enforcement officer appointed under the Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Services Act 2011

[Act 728];

“entry point” has the same meaning assigned to it under the

Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Services Act 2011;

“examine”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes the carrying out of any tests and post-mortem examination, after exhumation of the carcass (if necessary);

“fodder” means any substance used for food of animals or birds;

“horse” includes any mare, gelding, pony, foal, colt, filly, ass or mule;

“infected” means infected with any disease;

“litter” means any substance used for bedding or otherwise for or about animals or birds;

“MAQIS” means the Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Services as provided under the Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Services

Act 2011;

“MAQIS Act” means the Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection

Services Act 2011;

“master” means the captain of any ship or aircraft and includes any person for the time being in charge of any ship (other than a pilot) or aircraft;

NOTE — For other diseases declared by the Minister–see APPENDIX.

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“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for animal husbandry;

“offence against this Act” means any contravention of or failure to comply with any of the provisions of this Act or of any order, rule or direction made or given under it;

“officer of customs” has the same meaning as in the Customs Act 1967 [Act 235];

“owner” includes any person for the time being in charge of any animal or bird and any person for the time being in occupation of any building;

“quarantine” means the compulsory detention in isolation of any animal, bird or thing;

“quarantine station” means any building or place where quarantine is carried out and includes an examination station or hulk, and for the purposes of conducting quarantine under MAQIS Act, has the same meaning assigned to it under the Act;

“ship” includes every description of vessel or craft, however propelled, which may be used in navigation by water;

“State Director” means the State Director of Veterinary Services appointed under section 3;

“vaccine” includes any culture or living preparation of the causative agent of any disease;

“veterinary authority” means the Director General of Veterinary

Services, the Deputy Director General of Veterinary Services and any

State Director or Veterinary Services and any State Director of

Veterinary Services, any Veterinary Officer, Deputy or Assistant

Veterinary Officer and includes any person appointed in writing by the Director General of Veterinary Services, the Deputy Director

General of Veterinary Services and any State Director of Veterinary

Services, to be a veterinary authority under section 3;

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“veterinary centre” has the meaning assigned to it in section 82;

“veterinary police officer” means any member of the Police Force acting under the direction of a veterinary authority