ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Animal Diseases Act
9. Rules
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
9. Rules
The Cabinet Secretary may make rules for the better carrying out of this Act, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such rules may provide for—(a)the prevention of the introduction of and the prevention and control of, notifiable disease, including the licensing of animal producers;(b)the isolation, inoculation, removal and slaughter of animals infected by or suspected to be infected by any notifiable disease, or exposed to or likely to be exposed to any such disease;(c)the burial or destruction of carcasses;(d)prescribing ports and places for the importation or exportation of animals;(e)prohibiting or regulating the movement of animals along a national stock route, or through a national port or a national airport;(f)prescribing quarantine for imported animals or animals infected by notifiable disease or animals suspected of being infected by, or having been in contact with any animals infected by notifiable disease;(g)prescribing conditions under which animals may be imported or exported;(h)prescribing—(i)the disinfection of buildings and places wherein animals infected by any notifiable disease have been stalled or kept;(ii)the cleansing and disinfection of public markets, private auction or sale yards, railway premises, lairages, railway vans, trucks carriages, motor vehicles, aircraft, boats or lighters wherein any stock have been placed, kept or carried;(iii)the disinfection of animals which have been in contact with animals infected by notifiable disease or which have been in an infected area;(iv)the disinfection of persons and their clothing coming into contact with or employed about animals infected by notifiable disease or suspected of being so infected or being in an infected place; and(v)prescribing standards for locally manufactured biological and chemical products used for the control of animal disease and prohibiting the manufacture of any such product.