Dourine Act : POWERS OF VETERINARY PRACTITIONER Indian Bare Acts :

Dourine Act,1910

Act No : 5

Section : POWERS OF VETERINARY PRACTITIONER

SECTION 08: POWERS OF VETERINARY PRACTITIONER

- A veterinary practitioner may -

(a) cancel any order issued undersection 5-,10[* *]; or

(b) if on microscopical examination11 [or by other scientific test] he finds that any horse is affected with dourine,-

(i) in the case of an entire horse, cause it to be castrated,

12[(ii) in the case of a mare, with the previous sanction of such authority as the State Government may appoint in this behalf, or, if so empowered by the State Government, without such sanction, cause it to be destroyed.] This section has been brought into accord withsection 8-of the Glanders and Farcy Act, 1899. A rulemaking power to control the action taken under this section is inserted insection 14-- See S.C.R.