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PART VIII
QUARANTINE
57.
—(1) The Director-General may establish or designate such number of quarantine stations as he thinks necessary for the purposes of this Act.
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(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the Director-General may engage the service of any suitably qualified person to provide such number of quarantine stations as he thinks necessary and to manage any quarantine station established by him under subsection (1).
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58.
—(1) No person shall use or permit any premises to be used as a quarantine station for animals or birds unless such premises have been designated by the Director-General as a quarantine station under section 57.
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(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months.
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59.
—(1) The Minister may make rules for the following purposes:
(a)
to prohibit, either absolutely or subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, the keeping, breeding or feeding in any private or public place of any animal or bird or type thereof;
(b)
to regulate the keeping, breeding or feeding in any private or public place of any animal or bird or type thereof; and
(c)
to provide for the impounding of stray cats or dogs found in any public place.
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(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), rules made under that subsection may —
(a)
require any person intending to keep or breed any animal or bird or type thereof in any private or public place to obtain a licence from the Director-General and to comply with the conditions of such licence;
(b)
provide for the licence to be issued in respect of either or both —
(i)
the animal or bird to be kept or bred; and
(ii)
the place at which the animal or bird is to be kept or bred; and
(c)
empower the Director-General or an authorised officer to remove or destroy or cause the removal or destruction of any animal or bird in connection with which any contravention of any rule made under this section has been committed.
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(3) No compensation shall be payable in respect of any animal or bird which is required by any rules made under subsection (2)(c) to be destroyed.
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