FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE (PREVENTION)  _g S.L.36.05 1
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 36.05
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE (PREVENTION) 
REGULATIONS 
1st April, 1932;
22nd October, 1937;
24th December, 1937
GOVERNMENT NOTICES 103 of 1932 and 457 and 554 of 1937,
consolidated.
Title.
(Prevention) Regulations.
Interpretation.
any place approved in writing by the Principal Government
Veterinary Surgeon, in which cattle imported from abroad may be
kept.
Goats intended to 
be shipped to 
Gozo.
3. Goats intended to be shipped to Gozo shall be conveyed to
the civil abattoir, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.,
and kept there at the risk and expense of the owner, until tested for
undulant fever.
Tests.
be exported; they shall be slaughtered, and compensation shall be
paid in terms of regulations in force. Goats found not to give a
positive test shall be so certified and shall be shipped to Gozo only
from the Jetties Wharf in the Grand Harbour.
Goats shipped to 
Gozo to be 
inspected.
5. Animals intended to be shipped to Gozo shall be conveyed
to the landing place at Jetties Wharf for inspection by the Principal
Government Veterinary Surgeon or his representative before
shipment.
Removal of animal 
if found to be 
affected.
6. If any animal is found to be affected with foot-and-mouth
disease, it may be removed to the quarantine station and kept there
under observation for such period at the Superintendent of Public
Health may require, or subjected to any other sanitary precautions
which that officer may see fit to impose.
Imported cattle.
landing place to an approved pen or to the Lazzarretto.
Approved pens.
expense of the owner and access thereto shall be allowed only to
persons provided with a written permit granted by the Principal
Government Veterinary Surgeon.
Permission in 
writing.
9. No cattle, offal, fodder, litter, or dung shall be removed
from any approved pen without the permission in writing of the
Principal Government Veterinary Surgeon who may refuse such
permission or grant permission under such conditions and
restrictions as he may deem fit.
Disinfection.
contact with the cattle shall be disinfected, as may be directed by
the Principal Government Veterinary Surgeon.
