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Repeal. --- 136 THE KERALA PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF ANIMAL DISEASES ACT, 1967* (No. 4 of 1967) ENACTED BY THE PRESIDENT IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA. An Act to consolidate and amend t~e law relating to the p1eventzon and control of diseases affecting ammals. In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Kerala State Legislature (Ddegation of Powers) Act, 1965 (12 of 1965), the President is pleased to enact as follows :- CHAPTER I Preliminary I. Short title, extent and commencement.-( 1) This Act may be called the Kerala Prevention and Control of Animal Diseases Act, 1967. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Kerala. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different areas and for different provisions of this Act. ~· Defznttions.-In this Act, unless the context otherwise requrres,- (a) "animal" means any domestic animal or bird or any animal or bird kept in confinement; (b) "disinfect" means to free from d1sease germs; (c) "disinfest" means to free from vermins, lice, fleas, flies, mosquitoes and the like; (d) "export" means taking out of the State to a place outside the State; (e) "import" means bringing mto the State from a place outside the State; (f) "infected area" means any area declared as infected area by the D1rector of Animal Husbandry under section 17; (g) "infected place" means any place declared as infected place under section 14 or section 15 or section 16; • Published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordmary No. 24, dated 14th February,