DISEASES OF ANIMALS: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

Any stock in an area declared to be a stock-free zone shall be removed forthwith by the owner or the person having possession or custody of such stock from such area.

4. Offences

Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph 3 shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding P1000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to both.

SCHEDULE

(1) Gaborone City and Farms comprising—

(a) the remainder of the Farm Broadhurst B No. 4-KO, as shown on Diagram No. A620/1916;

(b) the Farm Annex Bonnington being portion 1 of the Farm Broadhurst B No. 4-KO, as shown on Diagram No. 582/1926; and

(c) lot 5384 (originally the Farm Broadhurst A No. 5-KO), as shown on Diagram A619/1916, with the exclusion of lot 6416 as shown on Diagram DSL 173/78,

as will more fully appear from Plan No. 246-KO deposited with the Director of Surveys and Lands, Gaborone.

(2) The vicinity of Motopi Government Veterinary Laboratory, namely, the area bounded by a continuous line outside the line described by the perimeter fence of the Government Veterinary Laboratory at Motopi, every point on which continuous line is 7 km from the nearest point on the line described by that perimeter fence, less so much of the area so bounded as lies south of the Boteti River.

(3) Areas of zones 16 and 17 as defined in Plan BP-223 deposited in the office of the Director of Surveys and Lands, Gaborone.

(4) Any area declared as a game reserve under the Wildlife Conservation and National Parks Act (Cap. 38:01).

DISEASES OF STOCK REGULATIONS

(under section 19)

(9th April, 1926)

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

REGULATION

1. Citation

2. Interpretation

3. Diseases

4. Importation and transport of stock

5. Permit for importation

6. Inoculation

7. Detention pending examination

8. Duty of owner for feeding, etc.

9. Expenses of confined animals

10. Branding

11. Removal of stock

12. Slaughter

13. General regulations

14. Stock-free zones

15. Inspection

16. Infecting stock

17. Possession of infected stock

18. Order for movement of stock

19. Cleansing of markets

20. Disinfection

21. Testing dipping tanks

22. Order for inoculation

23. Post-mortem

24. Destruction of stock

25. Reports

26. Suspected outbreaks

27. Investigation of reports

28. Isolation

29. Removal from places of isolation

30. Requirements from owners

31. Instruction to owners

32. Duties of owners

33. Removal by owners

34. Stock to be fenced

35. Retaining carcasses of infected stock

36. Seizure of stock

37. Keeping of stock

38. Branding in infected areas or places of isolation

39. Seizure of stock outside infected areas

40. Slaughter or death of stock in infected areas

41. Importation without permit

42. Notices on public roads

43. Driving stock on public roads

44. Stock from clean farms

45. Stray stock

46. No diseased stock to be impounded

47. Disposal of hooves, etc., of diseased stock

48. Disposal of hooves, etc., of stray stock

49. Exhumation

50. Branding of cattle

51. Assisting in branding

52. List of branded animals

53. Fences

54. Destruction of fences

55. Damaging fences

56. Leaving gates open

57. Cattle removal permits

58. Removal of vegetable or animal products

59. Prevention of straying

60. Order for isolation of stock removed without permit

61. Restriction on movement

62. Grazing and watering

63. Removal without permit

64. Dipping

65. Non-application of Regulations

66. Decision of Director

67. False information

68. Wrongful issue of permits

69. Contents of permits

70. Failure to comply with permits

71. Recovery of expenses

72. Hindering or obstructing officials

73. Penalties

74. Second or subsequent offences

75. Anthrax

76. Breeding diseases

77. Theileriosis or gonderiosis

78. Epizootic lymphangitis and ulcerative lymphangitis

79. Foot-and-mouth disease

80. Glanders or farcy

81. Mange in equines

82. Pleuropneumonia, contagious (or lung-sickness)

83. Rabies

83A. Peste des Petit Ruminants

84. Destruction of dogs and cats in a diseased area

85. Control of dogs and cats

86. Movement into and out of diseased area

87. Keeping of unvaccinated dogs and cats

88. Revaccination

89. Offences

90. Rinderpest-cattle plague

91. Scab in sheep

92. Compensation

93. Charges for dipping

94. Cleansing of railway trucks

95. Isolation by chiefs, etc.

96. Erection of dipping tanks

97. Application of Regulations regarding scab

98. Swine fever and swine erysipelas

99. Trypanozoonosis

100. Tuberculosis

101. Dourine

102. Export without permit prohibited

103. Bringing cattle or small stock for inspection

Schedule

HCN 28, 1926,
HCN 40, 1926,
HCN 80, 1926,
HCN 157, 1926,
HCN 128, 1928,
HCN 138, 1928,
HCN 53, 1931,
HCN 76, 1931,
HCN 106, 1931,
HCN 42, 1932,
HCN 67, 1932,
HCN 25, 1933,
HCN 105, 1933,
HCN 146, 1933,
HCN 18, 1937,
HCN 63, 1937,
HCN 48, 1938,
HCN 156, 1938,
HCN 108, 1939,
HCN 230, 1939,
HCN 208, 1940,
HCN 15, 1942,
HCN 341, 1942,
HCN 96, 1945,
HCN 198, 1948,
HCN 199, 1948,
HCN 39, 1949,
HCN 92, 1949,
HCN 37, 1950,
HCN 46, 1950,
HCN 196, 1950,
HCN 40, 1952,
HCN 179, 1952,
HCN 214, 1952,
HCN 88, 1957,
HCN 98, 1960,
HCN 42, 1961,
S.I. 2, 1969,
S.I. 34, 1969,
S.I. 65, 1970,
S.I. 79, 1976,
S.I. 123, 1977,
S.I. 69, 1982,
S.I. 100, 1998,
S.I. 66, 2001,
S.I. 46, 2017.

1. Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Diseases of Stock Regulations.

2. Interpretation

In these Regulations—

"cattle" means bulls, oxen, cows, heifers and calves;

"contagious disease" or "infectious disease" means a disease specified in and for the purposes of these Regulations;

"dip fluid" means an effective scab-destroying liquid of sufficient strength to ensure the destruction of the scab mite;

"dipping" means the immersion in dip fluid for a period of not less than two minutes of the bodies of the animals to be treated, and the submersion of the heads of such animals in dip fluid at least twice during such operation;

"Government veterinary officer" means an officer for the time being holding the appointment of Government veterinary officer;

"infected area" or "suspected area" means any area of land in Botswana which the President may by regulations declare to be an infected or suspected area as the case may be;

"infected sheep" means—

(a) any sheep infected with scab;

(b) any sheep forming part of a flock in which there are sheep so infected;

(c) any sheep which have been in contact with any infected sheep or have intermixed with any flock of scab-infected sheep within six weeks;

(d) any sheep which have or which have had within six weeks the same grazing ground in common with scab-infected sheep;

(e) any sheep which have been kept or confined in any kraal, sleeping place, or other premises in which infected sheep have been kept and which has not subsequently been declared by an inspector to be free from infection;

"official" means any District Officer, the Director, any Government veterinary officer, cattle export inspector, stock inspector, or scab inspector, or any person appointed or seconded from any other service to act in any such capacity, or any other member of the Veterinary Department authorised thereto by the Director, and also any member of the Botswana Police Force appointed by the President to carry out the provisions of these Regulations;

"place" means any land or premises owned or occupied or used by any person or body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporated, and also means any portion of land or any building specially specified by an official under these Regulations and any dipping tank;

"place of isolation" means any place specified by an official under these Regulations for the grazing, stabling, isolation, concentration, or confining of stock;

"port of entry" means a place declared under and for the purposes of these Regulations to be a port of entry for stock;

"public road" means any public road or road of necessity in Botswana established under and by virtue of the Public Roads Act (Cap. 69:04);

"scab" means the disease caused, in the case of sheep, by the parasites known as the Sarcoptes scabii, variety ovis; Psoroptes communis, variety ovis; and in the case of goats by the parasites known as the Sarcoptes scabii, variety capri; Psoroptes communis, variety capri; and Symbiotes communis, variety capri;

"sheep" includes goats;

"small stock" means sheep, goats, pigs and dogs;

"special quarantine area" means any area of land defined as such under and for the purposes of these Regulations;

"stock" means cattle, sheep, camels, goats, horses, mules, asses, pigs and slaughtered carcass or portion of the slaughtered carcass of such animals, all domesticated birds or poultry or any portions thereof, and for the purposes of regulations 57 to 74 shall include all canines, felines, other carnivora and monkeys; and shall include any other animal which has been prescribed to be stock under the Act to be stock for the purposes of these Regulations;

"stock inspector" or "scab inspector" means any person appointed as a stock inspector or scab inspector in Botswana;

3. Diseases

The following diseases are hereby specified for the purposes of these Regulations and shall be dealt with as hereinafter directed—

(a) anthrax;

(b) bacillary necrosis;

(d) dourine;

(e) theileriosis or gonderiosis;

(f) epizootic lymphangitis;

(g) foot-and-mouth disease;

(h) glanders and farcy;

(i) mange in equines;

(j) pleuropneumonia, contagious (or lung-sickness);

(k) quarter evil;

(l) rabies;

(m) rinderpest;

(n) scab in sheep;

(o) sheep-pox;

(p) swine erysipelas;

(q) swine fever;

(r) trypanozoonosis;

(s) tuberculosis;

(t) ulcerative lymphangitis;

(u) lumpy skin disease;

(v) Johne's disease;

(w) mange in the bovine, goat and pig;

(x) Newcastle disease;

(y) Psittacosis;

(z) bovine spongiform encephalopathy;

(aa) transmissible spongiform encephalopathies;

(bb) avian influenza,

(cc) peste des petit ruminants (PPR),

and any other disease to which stock are liable, and which may be prescribed under the Act to be a disease for the purposes of these Regulations.

4. Importation and transport of stock

On and after the commencement of these Regulations, no stock shall be imported into Botswana except as provided in these Regulations.

5. Permit for importation

(1) Anyone desirous of importing stock into Botswana shall first make an application to the Director or through any other official to the Director for a permit stating—

(a) the number and kind of stock which it is desired to introduce, and their breed and sex, stating in the case of cattle whether they have been or are to be kept for dairying or beef purposes, or both;

(b) the country and the particular district and farm, from which they come;

(c) the route by which they will travel and if required shall produce a certificate from a Government veterinary surgeon, or some duly authorised officer, stating that the stock is free from diseases, and have not come from an infected area.

(2) On receipt of these particulars, the Director may grant a permit for the importation of the stock, provided such importation is not prohibited by any special regulation, or considered by him, after reference to the Minister, likely to be detrimental to the interests of the livestock industry for any other reason, and subject to such conditions as he may consider desirable to impose in order to protect Botswana against the introduction and spread of any disease.

(3) In addition to any conditions which may be imposed by any official under subregulation (1)(c) a permit will be issued for the introduction of pigs into Botswana in terms of that regulation only upon production of a certificate issued by a veterinary surgeon duly authorised thereto by the Government of the country of origin of the pigs certifying that they—

(a) have not been vaccinated against swine fever (Hog cholera) by the serum-virus method;

(b) were subjected to and successfully passed the tuberculin test for both bovine and avian tuberculosis;

(c) were kept in isolation at the port of embarkation or other place approved by the Government of the country of origin for the period of 14 days immediately preceding the date of shipment to Botswana and that during that period they were found on examination to be free from ascaris infection and external parasites;

(d) were examined by him immediately prior to shipment and found to be healthy and free from foot-and-mouth disease, swine fever, swine erysipelas, swine influenza, swine plague, Aujeszky's disease, rabies, anthrax and all other diseases to which swine are susceptible or which they are capable of conveying; and that to the best of his knowledge and belief they emanate from a country, district or other administrative area which is free from all such diseases, and has been so free for a period of at least six months.

(4) This regulation shall not apply in respect of the introduction of pigs from the Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.

6. Inoculation

(1) It shall be lawful for the Director to order that any stock entering Botswana shall be detained and inoculated against any disease or be tested for any such disease or be dipped or disinfected in such manner as he may direct.

(2) Any expenses incurred by the Director in connection with the detention, examination, inoculation, testing, dipping or disinfection of such stock shall be borne by the person bringing or importing the stock into Botswana.

7. Detention pending examination

All stock, except dogs and other carnivora or monkeys coming from countries in which rabies does not exist, imported on or after the commencement of these Regulations, may be detained at the border until they have been examined by an official appointed for the purpose, and shall only be allowed to proceed when such official is satisfied that they are free from disease.

8. Duty of owner for feeding, etc.

In the case of stock which it has been found necessary to detain for examination, it shall be the duty of the owner to make the necessary arrangements for feeding, watering, and herding the same, and if he fails to make such arrangements, such stock shall remain, at the risk of the owner, at the place where they are detained, and if they are fed, watered, or herded by order of the Director, all costs shall be recoverable from the owner.

9. Expenses of confined animals

If the Director deems it advisable to confine detained stock in kraals or stables, the expense of feeding and all extra expenses connected with attendance shall be borne by the owner of the detained stock.

10. Branding

Slaughter stock entering Botswana may be branded with a special brand at the discretion of the Director.

11. Removal of stock

(1) In the case of any stock entering Botswana being found or suspected of suffering from a disease, or being suspected to have been in contact with stock suffering or suspected to be suffering from a disease, the Director may order the owner to remove the stock over the border, or in the alternative to retain them in Botswana under such conditions as he may prescribe in the order.

(2) If for any reason it is impossible to have any infected or suspected stock returned over the border, the Minister or any officer specifically authorised thereto by him may direct that the stock shall be slaughtered or dealt with in any manner he may prescribe.

12. Slaughter

Any stock which has come into Botswana, whether such stock is driven or is allowed to stray into Botswana, except in the manner provided by these Regulations, may be slaughtered by order of the Minister or any officer specifically authorised thereto by him or dealt with in whatever manner the Minister or any such officer may prescribe, and the person who imports or causes such stock to be imported, or allow such stock to stray into Botswana, or the person in charge of the same, shall be guilty of an offence against these Regulations.

13. General regulations

(1) No stock shall be moved from any one place to any other place in Botswana until sufficient efficient herds are provided by the owner to keep such stock under proper control and to prevent any such stock from straying.

(2) Any owner of stock who fails to comply with this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.

14. Stock-free zones

(1) No owner of stock or any person shall introduce or move or cause or allow to be introduced or moved any stock into or within any area declared under section 8 of the Act to be a stock-free zone without the written permission of the Director or his representative.

(2) Any person who introduces or moves stock in contravention of this regulation or whose stock is found to have come into such area without such permission shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding P1000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months.

15. Inspection

Any official shall have the power at any time to inspect any stock wherever such stock may be kept, driven or depastured, or may enter upon any place whatsoever for the purpose of ascertaining whether any stock is suffering from a disease, or for the purpose of ascertaining whether the regulations in respect to the cleaning and disinfection of the said place have been properly carried out, and may take with him such assistants and such animals, vehicles, instruments, appliances, drugs, or other things whatsoever as will enable him more effectively to perform such duty.

16. Infecting stock

Any person who in any suspected or infected area is found collecting or in possession of stock infected with ticks or any other living thing or any article capable of infecting stock, or removes any infected stock, with intent to infect stock therewith or to spread amongst stock any disease, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding P1000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or to both.

17. Possession of infected stock

(1) Any person who within Botswana is found in possession of stock infected with ticks or any other living thing or any articles capable of infecting stock with the intent mentioned in regulation 16 shall be guilty of an offence and liable upon conviction to the penalties prescribed in that regulation.

(2) The burden of disproving any such intent shall in any prosecution under this regulation 16 lie on the accused.

18. Order for movement of stock

(1) The President may for the purpose of preventing the introduction or spread of any disease order any stock to be moved to any place from any other place, or isolated in such manner and under such conditions as he may prescribe in consultation with the Director.

(2) He may also prohibit in any district or portion thereof the holding of exhibitions of stock and the sale of stock on public markets and in private saleyards.

19. Cleansing of markets

All public markets and private sale and auction yards, butchers' shops, and slaughterhouses, and all structures and enclosures connected therewith in which stock have been confined shall be cleansed and disinfected to the satisfaction of the Director at the close of each day during which they have been used, in accordance with instructions laid down by the Director.

20. Disinfection

(1) The Director or other official authorised in writing by him, may order any stock within Botswana to be dipped, washed, sprayed, or otherwise disinfected if he considers it necessary for the prevention of the spread of disease and for that purpose or for the purpose of inspection may order any stock to be collected at a specified place and time subject to at least 48 hours' notice in writing to that effect and the Minister may prescribe a scale of fees for such dipping, washing, spraying, or disinfecting.

(2) All such fees shall be recoverable by action in any competent court.

21. Testing dipping tanks

(1) It shall be lawful for any official to enter upon any place in Botswana for the purpose of taking fluid from any dipping tank, and to test such fluid to ascertain if it is of the correct strength for the proper dipping of stock.

(2) If the official finds on testing that the dipping fluid is not of the correct strength for the proper dipping of stock, he shall require the owner of the dipping tank to make the fluid the correct strength.

22. Order for inoculation

It shall be lawful for the Director to order any stock within Botswana to be inoculated in a manner approved by him against disease or to be tested for disease to which these Regulations apply.

23. Post-mortem

(1) Any veterinary surgeon authorised by the Minister to inspect stock for the purpose of ascertaining whether they are infected with disease shall have the right to slaughter one or more animals and to make a post-mortem examination.

(2) Compensation to the owner will be paid to the amount of the current market value (not exceeding P40 per head) of such stock which on being slaughtered and examined are found to be free from the disease which was suspected.

24. Destruction of stock

(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister to cause to be destroyed any stock—

(a) which are found to be infected with disease;

(b) which have been in contact with any stock infected with disease or have been in any infected area or place;

or to prohibit the removal from any place of any forage, grass, hay, grass rushes or any article or living thing likely to convey or spread any disease.

(2) Except as mentioned in these Regulations no compensation shall be payable in respect of any loss or damage caused by the exercise of the powers of these Regulations.

(3) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, delegate any person by name, or the person for the time being holding the office designated by him, to exercise any of the powers vested in him under subregulation (1) hereof, for a period not exceeding three months at any one time subject to such conditions, exceptions and qualifications as he may prescribe; and thereupon the person so delegated shall have and exercise such powers, subject as aforesaid.

(4) Any delegation made under subregulation (3) shall be revocable by the Minister at any time by notice published in the Gazette, and no such delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power by the Minister.

25. Reports

As soon as the owner of any place or any owner of stock or any veterinary surgeon who may be called in by the owner has reason to suspect that any stock in his charge or possession or in respect of which he has been called in is suffering or has died from a disease, he shall forthwith in the speediest manner possible report the same to the nearest official and shall obtain a written acknowledgement of such notice, which shall be prima facie evidence that the notice required by this regulation has been duly given.

26. Suspected outbreaks

Any person hearing of any suspected outbreak of disease, whether the stock are in his charge or his property or not, who fails to report it in the manner laid down in regulation 25 shall be guilty of an offence.

27. Investigation of reports

Any official on receiving notice of the outbreak or suspected outbreak of a disease shall immediately communicate with the Director, and shall use all possible means to investigate the report.

28. Isolation

(1) It shall be lawful for an official to isolate in a place to be specified by him any stock amongst which an outbreak of disease has or is suspected to have occurred, or any other stock which have been or are suspected of having been in contact with infected stock.

(2) Such isolation shall not exceed a period of 30 days unless authorised by the Minister or Director, and the official isolating the stock shall within a reasonable time obtain the authority of the Director for such isolation.

(3) Any costs incurred in connection with the isolation shall be recoverable from the owner of the stock.

(4) Any owner of stock isolated under the provisions of this regulation may be ordered by any official to furnish such number of efficient herds as in the opinion of such official shall be necessary to herd and isolate such stock.

29. Removal from places of isolation

No person shall move or cause to be moved from or to a place of isolation as mentioned in regulation 28 any stock without the permission in writing of the official in charge of such place of isolation.

30. Requirements from owners

When the Director or stock inspector has ascertained that any case of disease has occurred on any farm or place, he shall acquaint the owner of the stock and the owner of the farm or place with the action they are required to take under these Regulations, and he shall also notify the District Officer of the district.

31. Instruction to owners

The District Officer shall, on receipt from the Director or stock inspector of a signed notification of the outbreak of a disease, forthwith cause all owners of farms and owners of stock in the neighbourhood to be notified of the outbreak.

32. Duties of owners

On becoming aware of the occurrence of disease, the owner of the stock shall—

(a) cause all infected stock and stock which have been exposed to infection to be kept in a place separate from all other stock liable to be infected or to carry the disease;

(b) prevent such stock from leaving such place or being kept within 100 metres of any public road or of any adjoining farm or place unless confined in a stable or kraal;

(d) to the best of his ability carry out the instructions of the Director or any official; and

(e) on the direction of the Director or stock inspector cause any stock infected with disease or suspected of being so infected or any stock which may have been in contact with such infected stock, to be moved to any other place or to be isolated or concentrated in accordance with such directions.

33. Removal by owners

Any stock in the vicinity of any place of isolation or in the vicinity of any place where an outbreak of disease has occurred shall be removed by the owner thereof to such place or places as any official may direct, and shall remain at such place or places until their removal shall be authorised by an official.

34. Stock to be fenced

It shall be the duty of every owner of any stock within any infected area or place of isolation to keep such stock within a fenced enclosure or to provide sufficient herds to prevent such stock from straying outside any area or place from which such stock may not be removed without a permit under these Regulations.

35. Retaining carcasses of infected stock

It shall be the duty of every owner of stock within any infected area or place of isolation to keep the carcass or any portion of the carcass of stock which has died of disease or is suspected of having died of disease, or which has been destroyed as suffering from disease, and all such carcasses or portions of carcasses shall be dealt with and afterwards disposed of in the manner prescribed by the Director.

36. Seizure of stock

(1) When any person is found removing or causing to be removed, or to have removed or to have caused to be removed, any stock from any infected area or place of isolation to a place outside such infected area or place of isolation or from a place outside an infected area or place of isolation to a place within such infected area or place of isolation, or from one place to another within an infected area or place of isolation without the permit for removal prescribed by any regulation for the time being in force; or when any person fails or refuses to produce the permit to remove such stock required by any regulation for the time being in force, or if such stock be found straying, the loss of which has not been previously reported to the police or the ownership of which has not been declared within 48 hours, then any official may seize and detain any such stock and take the same to a place of isolation, and shall thereupon report through the District Officer of the district all the circumstances to the Minister, who may order any stock seized and detained as aforesaid to be slaughtered or otherwise dealt with in a manner prescribed by him.

(2) If the same be slaughtered, the carcasses shall be dealt with in such manner as the Minister may determine.

37. Keeping of stock

If within the limits of any town or urban area any area or place has been declared an infected area or place of isolation under these Regulations, no stock shall be kept in any such area or place except under the following conditions—

(a) that they be kept within a stable or an enclosed piece of ground approved by the Director;

(b) that the grass or bush from the said area or place be not supplied to the stock as food or litter;

(d) that in the case of stock allowed to be kept in an enclosed piece of ground which is not a stable or yard, the said stock shall, in the event of disease breaking out amongst them, be immediately slaughtered or be conveyed under the instruction of the Director to a stable;

(e) that in the event of disease breaking out amongst stabled animals, no manure, litter, carcass, or any portion thereof shall be removed until the same has been disinfected to the satisfaction of the Director, and then under written permission of the District Officer or Director.

38. Branding in infected areas or places of isolation

(1) Whenever it is considered expedient to do so, the Minister shall cause to be branded on the near side of the neck with a brand which may be prescribed by the Minister by notice published in the Gazette any stock in an infected area or place of isolation.

(2) Stock so branded shall not be removed from any infected area or place of isolation except by authority of the Director, when the said brand shall be again placed on the neck below the brand originally employed.

39. Seizure of stock outside infected areas

(1) If any stock bearing one of the said brands only is found outside any such infected area or place of isolation, it may be seized and summarily destroyed by any person finding such stock, and such person shall bury or cause to be buried every carcass intact at the place where the stock was destroyed.

(2) The person destroying such stock shall in the speediest manner possible report all the circumstances of the case to the nearest District Officer and shall produce for his inspection those portions of the hide bearing the brand and any other brand which may be on the stock.

(3) All the particulars of the case shall be forwarded to the Director by the official to whom the report was made.

40. Slaughter or death of stock in infected areas

If any stock within any infected area or place of isolation is slaughtered or dies or is sold, the owner of the same shall report the occurrence to the nearest official, by whom the Director shall be advised.

41. Importation without permit

Any person who imports into Botswana from any other country any vehicle (other than railway or motor vehicle) or wagon gear or cart gear or harness, also hay, grass, or any horns or skins taken from animal, without a permit signed by the Minister or some person appointed by him to sign such permits, or by the Director, shall be guilty of an offence.

42. Notices on public roads

When any farm or place which adjoins a public road has been declared an infected area, the District Officer of the district shall cause placards stating the disease on account of which the farm or place has been declared infected to be placed in a manner visible from the public road on the said farm or place at the two points where the road enters and leaves it.

43. Driving stock on public roads

No person shall drive or conduct, or permit or cause to be driven or conducted, any stock along any portion of a public road which has been declared infected with disease to which that stock is liable, unless an official notice has been published to the effect that they may do so.

44. Stock from clean farms

If stock from a clean farm or place or public road stray onto an infected area or place of isolation, such stock may be considered as suspected and may be isolated in terms of these Regulations.

45. Stray stock

When any stray stock are found in an infected area or place of isolation—

(a) they shall be confined and isolated as near as possible to the place where they have been found by the owner of the land or by any official, who shall immediately report the finding of such stock to the Director or District Officer of the district, and shall act in accordance with the official instructions conveyed to him;

(b) if the services of a veterinary surgeon are not immediately available, the stock shall be regarded as suspected of being infected with a disease and may be slaughtered or otherwise dealt with as the Minister may direct;

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