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Sleeping Sickness Act (Chapt 63:03).

Country/Territory
Botswana
Document type
Legislation
Date
1939 (1977)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to control sleeping sickness.
Subject
Livestock
Keyword
Pests/diseases Animal health Internal trade
Geographical area
Africa, Landlocked Developing Nations, Southern Africa
Abstract

This Act concerns the control sleeping sickness affecting human beings but also the control of animals for this purpose. Subject to the provisions of any written law for the time being in force, the Minister may, for the purpose of arresting or preventing the outbreak or spread of sleeping sickness in any sleeping sickness area, issue orders directing persons moving cattle into, within or through the area to proceed along specified roads, and specifying the number of any such animals which may be driven by any single person or prohibiting the sale of cattle at any specified place or at any other than a specified place. "Cattle" includes sheep and goats and the young of any sheep and goats.

Full text
English
Website
www.elaws.gov.bw

References - Legislation

Implemented by

Tsetse Fly Control Order.

Legislation | Botswana | 1960

Keyword: Animal health, Pests/diseases, Public health

Source: FAO, FAOLEX