Section 21: Regulations

(1) The Director or Chief Veterinary Officer, as the case may be, may, subject to the approval of the Minister or Commissioner, make regulations-
(a) providing for the examination, testing, isolation, inoculation, removal, disinfection, branding and slaughter of animals infected or suspected of being infected with any disease or such animal which may have been in contact with any diseased animal;
(b) prescribing and regulating the destruction, burial, digging up, disposal or treatment of any carcass or of any fodder, litter, utensils, pens, hurdles, faeces or any other thing being in an infected premises or removed therefrom;
(c) regulating the movement of animals within a State;
(d) prohibiting the movement of animals into an area in which there is suspected to be any disease, and for prohibiting or restricting the removal from any such area of any animal, carcass, litter, fodder, animal product, biologic or any other thing by means of which disease may be carried;
(e) declaring any area to be a controlled area for purposes connected with the control of any disease and for eradicating such disease from such area and for preventing its introduction or re-introduction thereto and for prohibiting and restricting the movement of any animal from any such area;
(f) the disinfection of persons, including the clothing of persons, who have been in contact with or employed about animals which are suffering or suspected to be suffering from disease;
(g) for the reporting of cases of disease or death amongst animals;
(h) for the disinfection of buildings or places wherein animals infected with disease have been stalled or kept, and the disinfection and cleaning of public markets, private sale yards, airports and sea ports, railway premises, railway vans, trucks and carriages wherein any animal shall have been placed, kept or carried;
(i) prohibiting in any place where disease exists the performance of any local customs likely to lead to the dissemination of such disease;
(j) requiring or regulating the branding of animals, prescribing the brands which may or shall be used and providing for the registration of brands;
(k) for the appointment of officers to carry out the provisions of any regulations made under this Act and conferring upon them all necessary powers;
(l) prescribing and regulating the seizure, detention, disposal and forfeiture of any animal in relation to which any breach of any regulation under this Act or of any order or instructions under any such regulation has been committed and for determining the person who shall be liable to defray the expenses of such seizure, detention, and disposal;
(m) prescribing the fees to be paid for any examination, inoculation, testing, disinfection, or for any certificate, licence, permit or other things issued or done under any regulation made under this Act, and the payment to be made for the feeding and stabling of any animal in quarantine;
(n) prescribing the cases in which compensation may be paid to the owners of any animal slaughtered, or to the owners of any carcass destroyed because it is suspected of being infected with disease, under powers conferred by any provisions of this Act and determining the amount of such compensation and the funds out of which such compensation shall be paid;
(o) prescribing the proof required that an animal or carcass is infected with disease or is suspected of being infected with disease;
(p) prescribing and regulating the construction, position and proper sanitary maintenance of any place where an animal is kept; and
(q) generally for the prevention of the introduction and spread of any disease and for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.
(2) Any regulations made under this Act shall have effect from the date of its publication in the Federal Gazette or such later date as may be specified therein.