Animal Diseases Act, 1984 (Act No. 35 of 1984)Regulations13. Isolation of controlled animals or things |
| (1) | When, in respect of a particular controlled animal disease it is required in columns 5 or 6 of Table 2 that a contact animal or an infected animal be isolated, the responsible person shall isolate such animal as well as any progeny or product thereof on the land on which it occurs by— |
| (a) | keeping a contact animal and the progeny or product thereof, separate from an infected animal and the progeny or product thereof; |
| (b) | isolating a contact animal and an infected animal referred to in paragraph (a) and the progeny or product thereof in such a manner that susceptible animals cannot come in contact therewith, or that it cannot escape from the place of isolation thereof; |
| (c) | ensuring that susceptible animals will not make use of the same pastures, watering points, stables, kraals, dipping tanks, crush pens and other facilities as contact animals or infected animals; and |
| (d) | ensuring that the same equipment or apparatus will not be used in connection with contact animals or infected animals and the progeny or products thereof, as well as susceptible animals and the progeny or product thereof, unless such equipment or apparatus is efficiently disinfected in the manner referred to in regulation 15 after each such category of animals and the progeny or products thereof have been treated therewith. |
| (2) | When an animal that is moved on the hoof to other land becomes or is suspected of having become infected with a controlled animal disease prior to reaching the destination thereof, such animal and also any contact animal shall with the concurrence of the owner or manager of the land on which it then is, or of land in the immediate vicinity, thereof, be isolated in the manner contemplated in subregulation (1) unless the responsible State Veterinarian directs otherwise. |
| (3) | Subject to the provisions of subregulation (4), a controlled animal or thing that is isolated in terms of subregulation (1) or (2) shall remain in isolation until the responsible State Veterinarian has in writing— |
| (a) | revoked the isolation thereof; or |
| (b) | ordered the disposal thereof in the manner indicated by him. |
| (4) | No person shall without the written authority of the responsible State Veterinarian, or contrary to any condition imposed by him in such authority, remove a controlled animal or thing referred to in subregulation (3), from the place of isolation thereof. |