2022-03-16
OBJECTS AND REASONS
This Bill would amend the Animals (Diseases and Importation) Act, Cap. 253.
Arrangement of Sections
Short title
Amendment of section 2 of Cap. 253
Repeal and replacement of section 11 of Cap. 253
Insertion of Schedule into Cap. 253
SCHEDULE
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BARBADOS
A Bill entitled
An Act to amend the Animals (Diseases and Importation) Act.
ENACTED by the Parliament of Barbados as follows:
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Animals (Diseases and Importation) (Amendment) Act, 2022. 1.
Amendment of section 2 of Cap. 253
Section 2 of the Animals (Diseases and Importation) Act, Cap. 253, in this Act referred to as the principal Act, is amended by
deleting the definition “communicable animal disease” and substituting the following:
“ “communicable animal disease” means a disease specified in the Schedule;”;
inserting in alphabetical order, the following definition:
“ “disease” means communicable animal disease;”; and
deleting the definition “diseased”.
Repeal and replacement of section 11 of Cap. 253
Section 11 of the principal Act is deleted and the following is substituted:
“Amendment of Schedule
The Minister may by Order amend the Schedule.”.11.
Insertion of Schedule into Cap. 253
The principal Act is amended by inserting after Part IV, the Schedule set out in the Schedule in this Act.
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SCHEDULE
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“SCHEDULE
(Section 2)
Communicable Animal Diseases
Actino-mycosis (lumpy-jaw)
African Swine Fever
Amblyomma Variegatum
Anthrax
Brucellosis (B. abortus, B. mellitensis, B. suis)
Canine Distemper
Contagious Pleuro-pneumonia
Dermatophilosis
Dourine
Strangles (equine distemper)
Equine Encephalomyelitis
Equine Infectious Anaemia (swamp fever)
Epizootic Lymphangitis
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Foot and Mouth disease
Glanders (farcy)
Heart-water
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Classical Swine Fever (hog cholera)
Paratuberculosis (Johne’s disease)
Newcastle disease
Avian Chlamydiosis (psittacosis, ornithosis)
Fowl Typhoid and Pullorum disease
Rabies
Rinderpest
Surra
Tuberculosis (Bovine and Avian)”.
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Read three times and passed the House of Assembly this day of , 2022.
Speaker
Read three times and passed the Senate this day of , 2022.
President
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