CONTROL AND DISEASES OF ANIMALS: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
NOTE
DECLARATION OF INFECTED AREAS
under s. 4
The declarations made (and still in force by virtue of section 14 of the General Interpretation Act, Cap. 1:01) under section 4 of the Diseases of Animals Ordinance, 1922, No. 15 of 1922, are not published here. Some are published as Government Notices, others as General Notices in the Gazette.
The declarations made under section 4 of the Act are not published here. They are published as General Notices in the Gazette.
ANIMAL (IMPORT) RULES
under s. 6
G.N. 235/1968
These Rules may be cited as the Animal (Import) Rules.
In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—
“animal” includes animal semen, poultry, eggs and rabbits;
“animal by-product” means any carcass, meat meal, blood meal, bone meal, biological products of animal origin, sera and vaccines for use on animals;
“fodder” includes all types of forage used for animal food, and grains of any variety including grain offal.
No person shall import or cause to be imported into Malawi any animal or animal by-product except under a permit in writing issued by the Chief Veterinary Officer under rule 4 who may attach to it such conditions as he deems necessary to prevent the introduction of disease into Malawi. Any person who imports or causes to be imported any animal of animal by-product without such permit or who contravenes any of the provisions or conditions of the said permit shall be guilty of an offence.
(1) The Chief Veterinary Officer may, upon written application being made addressed to:
Chief Veterinary Officer
P.O. Box 30134
Capital Hill
Lilongwe 3
or to the office of any veterinary officer, issue a permit under these Rules.
(2) The issue of a permit in accordance with these Rules shall not relieve the holder of such permit from any requirements of any other law of Malawi in regard to imports, customs or excise.
No person shall be required to obtain a permit in accordance with these Rules—
(a) if the animal is in course of transit by air through Malawi from a place outside Malawi to another place outside Malawi and is not off-loaded within the boundaries of Malawi;
(b) if the animal by-product or fodder is in course of transit by air or rail through Malawi from a place outside Malawi to another place outside Malawi and is off-loaded only for the purpose of transhipment.
(1) The Chief Veterinary Officer shall have power to cancel at any time a permit issued under these Rules.
(2) In any case where a permit is cancelled the Chief Veterinary Officer shall, by notice in writing, inform—
(a) the holder of such permit; and
(b) the Controller of Customs and Excise,
of such cancellation.
7. Powers of Chief Veterinary Officer
(1) The Chief Veterinary Officer may require any animal, animal by-product or fodder—
(a) to be examined by a veterinary officer;
(b) to be held in quarantine for such period as is necessary to ensure that no disease is introduced into Malawi;
(c) to be returned to its point of origin;
(d) to be destroyed where, in his opinion, there is no practical alternative method of preventing the introduction of disease into Malawi.
(2) Where any animal, animal by-product or fodder is held in quarantine or required to be returned to its point of origin or destroyed, the person who imports such animal, animal by product or fodder shall be liable for all costs in connexion with such quarantine, return or destruction.
DISEASES OF ANIMALS RULES
ARRANGEMENT OF RULES
RULE
1. Citation
17. Duties of veterinary officer and inspector
18. Power to require any animal to be disinfected and to take blood smears, etc.
19. Stray animals found suffering from disease
20. Payment for use of private land to quarantine travelling or stray animals
21. Destruction of carcasses of stray livestock
22. Carcass or carcasses not to be removed
23. Grass and herbage not to be removed from infected land
24. Compulsory dipping
25. Construction of dipping tanks may be ordered
26. Powers of inspectors
27. Penalty for failing to dip animals in areas not exempted
28. Intervals of dipping
29. Power to temporarily exempt from compulsory dipping
30. Power of Minister to temporarily exempt persons living in African areas
31. Movement of animals from exempted areas
32. Power to require provision of dipping facilities
33. Power of Government to act on behalf of absentee owners
34. Provision of dipping tanks in certain areas
35. Precautionary measures
36. Power…
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