Act Number: 27

Act Name: The Prevention and Control of Infectious and Contagious Diseases in Animals Act, 2009

Year: 2009

Enactment Date: 2009-03-20

Long Title: An Act to provide for the prevention, control and eradication of infectious and contagious diseases affecting animals, for prevention of outbreak or spreading of such diseases from one State to another, and to meet the international obligations of India for facilitating import and export of animals and animal products and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Department: Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying

Section 11: Precautionary measures in relation to controlled areas.
    No person shall take out of the controlled area--
         (a) any animal, alive or dead, which is infected with, or reasonably suspected to have been infected with, any scheduled disease notified under sub-section (1) of section 6;
         (b) any kind of fodder, bedding or other material which has come into contact with any animal infected with such disease or could, in any manner, carry the infection of the notified disease; or
         (c) the carcass, skin or any other part or product of such animal.
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