Section 18:
Cleaning and disinfection of carriers.
(1) Every common carrier whether a vessel or vehicle
shall be cleaned and disinfected immediately before and after the transportation of any animal in that
vessel or vehicle, and so also any other place where the animal has been kept in transit.
(2) Where any area has been declared as a controlled area or free area in respect of any scheduled
disease affecting any species of animal, the Director may, by an order duly published in the Official
Gazette and in a local newspaper in the vernacular language, direct the owner of every vehicle in which
any animal belonging to that species is carried, to have the vehicle properly cleaned and disinfected.