ZMB- MB - CONTROL MEASURES
ANIMAL HEALTH
Zambia / Animal health
DISEASE CONTROL
CONTROL MEASURES
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Section 12 (extract)- "Where at any place within or outside Zambia there exists, or is suspected to exist, any disease which is likely to affect animals in Zambia, the Minister or Director may make such order as the Minister or Director considers necessary for all or any of the following purposes: (a) to prohibit or prevent the introduction of any disease from such place into Zambia or any part of Zambia;(b) to prohibit or regulate the entry and movement of any animal, animal product, animal by-product, article or conveyance within or out of any part of Zambia named in the order"
Section 23 (extract)- "(2) The Director may, where the Director declares an area a quarantine area under subsection (1) — (c) prohibit the movement of any person, conveyance, animal, animal product, animal by-product or article from or to the area ".
Section 51(extract)- "The Minister may, by statutory instrument, make regulations—(a) prohibiting the travel or movement of persons, domestic animals and conveyances to, from or within, a tsetse fly area or a tsetse fly control area;(b) restricting travel or movement to certain defined routes and to specified periods of the day or night;(c) where any travel or movement is authorised in terms of this Act, providing for the inspection, by officers, of persons, domestic animals and conveyances, for the purpose of detecting the presence of tsetse flies, and for the introduction and enforcement of measures forbidding such persons, domestic animals and conveyances, of tsetse flies"
Section 63 (extract)- "(2) The Director may, where the Minister declares an animal disease emergency under subsection (1)—(d) restrict the movement of persons, vehicles and goods to,and from, the area; "
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Section 20 (extract)- "(1) An officer may instruct an owner of any animals to assemble the animals or any part of the animals at any specified place for the purposes of inspection or inoculation, or for any purpose authorised under the provisions of this Act or under any order made under the provisions of this Act.(2) An instruction issued in accordance with subsection (1) to the headman of a village shall be deemed to be an instruction to an owner of animals in such village, provided that such notice is issued in writing and in such language or dialect as is commonly spoken by, or understood among, the majority of the inhabitants of that village.(3) A headman of a village to whom an instruction is issued in accordance with subsection (2) shall immediately take all reasonable- steps to communicate the contents of the instruction to every owner of animals in such village."
28; For the carrying into effect of the last two preceding regulations, a Local Authority or Administrative Officer shall, if required by a Medical Officer of Health, notify the chiefs, headmen and people residing in any town, village or district that it is their duty to report all cases of sickness or death among rats or mice and instruct them as to the officer to whom such report shall be made.
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Section 12 (extract)-Where at any place within or outside Zambia there exists, or is suspected to exit, any disease which is likely to affect animals in Zambia, the Minister or Director may make such order as the Minister or Director considers necessary for all or any of the following purposes: (c) to regulate the quarantine, isolation, disinfection or treatment of any animal, animal product, animal byproduct, article or conveyance in any part of Zambia named in the order."
Section 27 (extract)- (3) Without derogating from the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may, by regulation:(a) provide for the disinfection or treatment of any imported animal, animal product, animal by-product or article or their containers; "
Section 31(extract)- "(1) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, provide for the eradication of disease and the prevention or control of the spread of diseases. (2) Without derogating from the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may provide for –(a) the disinfection, treatment, destruction or disposal of an animal, animal product, animal by-product or article infected, or appearing to be infected, with a disease, or anything liable to infect an animal with a disease;"
40; The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare an area, or any part thereof, to be a livestock cleansing area.
41(1); An owner of livestock in a livestock cleansing area shall cleanse the livestock at such intervals as may be prescribed.
42(1); The Director may, for considerations of weather, drought or condition of livestock, or for other causes beyond the control of the owner of livestock, temporarily exempt an owner of livestock from the provisions of section forty-one and may during such periods prescribe the interval of cleansing.
3(1); The areas specified in the Schedule are declared livestock cleansing areas.(2) An owner of livestock in a livestock cleansing area shall undertake cleansing of livestock infested with ten or more ticks.
4; Subject to section fourty-two of the Act, the cleansing of livestock shall be undertaken at regular intervals as specified in this Order.
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20(2); An instruction issued in accordance with subsection (1) to the headman of a village shall be deemed to be an instruction to an owner of an animal in such village: Provided such notice is issued in writing and in such language or dialect as is commonly spoken by, or understood among, the majority of the inhabitants of that village.
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Section 24(extract)- "(1) The Director may designate any place as an animal quarantine station."
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Section 12 (extract)- Where at any place within or outside Zambia there exists, or is suspected to exit, any disease which is likely to affect animals in Zambia, the Minister or Director may make such order as the Minister or Director considers necessary for all or any of the following purposes:(c) to regulate the quarantine, isolation, disinfection or treatment of any animal, animal product, animal by-product, article or conveyance in an part of Zambia named in the order;"
Section 18 (extract)- (2) A veterinary inspector or officer shall, for the purpose of isolating animals in an infected area- (a) require the owner of the infected animals within the infected area to isolate the infected animals from other animals; (b) regulate the movement of animals within the infected area;"
Section 23(1): The Director may declare any land, premises or area that is infected or is suspected to be infected with a notifiable disease to be a quarantine area for such period as the Director may determine.
Section 24(1): The Director may designate any place as an animal quarantine station.
6; if, in the opinion of a Veterinary Officer, any stock at any time during its period of quarantine shows symptoms of a disease, the Veterinary Officer may, subject to the approval of the Director, order its destruction and that of any animal with which it has been in contact.
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20(2); An instruction issued in accordance with subsection (1) to the headman of a village shall be deemed to be an instruction to an owner of an animal in such village: Provided such notice is issued in writing and in such language or dialect as is commonly spoken by, or understood among, the majority of the inhabitants of that village.
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Section 6 (extract)- "(2) A veterinary officer may, in the course of an inspection carried out under this section- (a) seize, re-call, destroy, detain, treat or otherwise dispose of any animal, animal product, animal by-product, article or animal feed, or order that any such action be taken, at the expense of the owner;"
23(2); The Director may, where the Director declares an area a quarantine area in accordance with subsection (1)- (a) determine measures for the treatment or disposal of any animal, animal product, animal by-product or article in the area; (b) order the treatment of any conveyance, whether infected or not...
4; A vaccinating veterinarian shall issue a vaccinating certificate for African Horse sickness and Rabies to an owner of an animal vaccinated against African Horse sickness and Rabies.
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Section 6 (extract)- " (1) A veterinary officer may- (b) destroy or order the destruction at any time of any animal, animal product, animal by-product, article or animal feed which is diseased, moved or used contrary to the provisions of this Act;"
Section 13 (extract)- "(3) A veterinary officer may seize, detain and destroy without compensation, any animal, animal product, animal by-product or article removed from an infected area in contravention of the provisions of this Act or an order made in terms of this Act. (4) A veterinary officer may order the disposal of an animal, animal product, animal by-product, article, carcass and any other thing associated with any disease within an infected area."
6(c); if, in the opinion of a Veterinary Officer, any stock at any time during its period of quarantine shows symptoms of a disease, the Veterinary Officer may, subject to the approval of the Director, order its destruction and that of any animal with which it has been in contact.
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Section 13 (extract)- "(3) A veterinary officer may seize, detain and destroy without compensation, any animal, animal product, animal by-product or article removed from an infected area in contravention of the provisions of this Act or an order made in terms of this Act."
Section 69 (extract)- "The Minister may, by statutory instrument, regulate the procedure, criteria, type and determination of compensation to be given to any person under this Act."
Section 70 (extract)- "(1) A claim for compensation shall be made to the Director in the prescribed manner and form. (2) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the Minister may order the payment of compensation to the owner of an animal, animal product, animal by-product, article or animal feed destroyed or disposed of, under the powers conferred by this Act, where physical evidence is provided that the animal, animal product, animal by-product, article or animal feed was destroyed or disposed of as a consequence of the exercise of powers conferred under this Act. (3) In determining the amount of compensation to be paid under this Act, no allowance for loss of profit occasioned by breach of contract or loss of production or any other consequential losses shall be made."
Section 71 (extract)- "The Minister may withhold compensation in whole or in part where-(a) doubt or dispute arises as to the entitlement of a person to receive compensation as stipulated under this Act;(b) the owner of the animal, animal product, animal by-product, article or animal fed in respect of which compensation is claimed has committed an offence under this Act; (c) the animal, animal product, animal by-product, article or animal feed was at the time it was imported into the country already infected or contaminated by a disease or did not meet the prescribed standard;
(d) the animal is slaughtered on humane grounds; or (e) the animal was diseased at the time of slaughter. "
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Section 64 (extract)- "(3) The monies of the Fund shall be applied for-(b) the payment of compensation due to any person whose animals are destroyed under powers conferred by this Act;"
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Section 6 (extract)- "(5) A person who contravenes an order made pursuant to this section commits an offence and is liable, upon conviction, to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand penalty units or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years, or to both. (6) Where a person fails or refuse to do anything which that person is required to do under an order made under this section, a veterinary officer may do or cause such thing to be done. (7) The cost of anything which a veterinary officer does or causes to be done under subsection (6) shall be recoverable by the Director from the person who failed or refused to comply with the order."
Section 14 (extract)- "(1) An owner of land on which livestock are kept shall provide facilities for the handling and housing of livestock and disease control facilities for the humane maintenance of such livestock. (2) An owner of land who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable, upon conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand penalty units or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, or to both."
Section 17 (extract)- "(4) A person who contravenes this section commits an offence and is liable, upon conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand penalty units or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, or to both."
Section 18 (extract)- "(3) A who contravenes subsection(1) commits an offence and is liable, upon conviction, to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand penalty units or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years, or to both."