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The metter was reported to the Public Health
Committee who gave instructions for proceedings to be
taken. (Result of proceedings reported in " Summonses
Heard.")
SANITARY NOTICES AND ADMINISTRATION.
ORDER OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES.
(Dated i8th August, 1915.)
MAINTENANCE OF LIVE STOCK ORDER OF 1915.
The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, by virtue and in
exercise of the powers vested in them under the Maintenance
of Live Stock Act, 1915, and for the purpose of maintaining a
sufficient stock of cattle and swine, do hereby order as
follows :—
Restriction of Slaughter of Animals In-calf or In-pig.
1. An animal which is visibly or obviously in-calf or in-pig
shall not be slaughtered, or be caused or permitted by its owner
to be slaughtered.
Restriction of Slaughter of Calves.
2.—(1) After the thirtieth day of September, nineteen
hundred and fifteen, until the Board shall by Order otherwise
provide, and subject to the provisions of this Article, a calf as
defined by clause (5) of this Article, shall not be slaughtered, or
be caused or permitted by the owner thereof to be slaughtered.
From the commencement of this Order until the said date this
provision shall apply only to calves under the age of eight
weeks.
(2) This Article shall not apply to the slaughter of a calf
of a cow of any of the following dairy breeds, that is to say :—
Channel Island, Ayrshire, Kerry and Dexter breeds.
(3) This Article shall also not apply to the slaughter of a
calf which has been offered for sale by public auction at any
market or saleyard in England, Wales or Scotland, without
reserve or subject to a reserve price of thirty shillings or less,
and for which no bid exceeding thirty shillings has been made
on such occasion ; but this provision shall have effect only—
(a) if the calf so offered for sale is before movement
from the market or saleyard marked by, or under the