Company : Sol Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Website : www.courtkutchehry.com RAILWAYS (PRESCRIPTION OF INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES FOR ANIMALS) RULES, 1990 CONTENTS 1. Short title and commencement 2. Definition 3. Animals suffering from infectious or contagious diseases RAILWAYS (PRESCRIPTION OF INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES FOR ANIMALS) RULES, 1990 11. Published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, PL II, Sec. 3 (1), No. 218, dated 7lh June, 1990. In exercise of the powers conferred by Cl. (c) of sub-section (2) of Sec. 87 of the Railways Act. 1989 (24 of 1989), read with S.22 of the General Clauses Act, 1897, the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely : 1. Short title and commencement :- (1) These Rules may be called the Railways (Prescription of Infectious and Contagious Diseases for Animals) Rules, 1990. (2) They shall come into force on the date of commencement of the Act1 . 1. W.e-f 1st July 1990,vide S.0.47S(E) dated 12th June, 1990. 2. Definition :- In these rules "Act" means the Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989). 3. Animals suffering from infectious or contagious diseases :- For the purpo- se of Section 68 of the Act, the following diseases of animals are prescribed to be infectious or contagious in nature, namely: (1) Cattle and Buffaloes. - Rinderpest, Foot and Mouth diseases, contagious bovine Pleuropneumonia, Anthrax, Rabies, Tuberculosis, Para-Tuberculosis, Theileriosis, Brucellosis, Haemorrhagic, Septicaemia, Black Quarter, Leptopirosis, Piroplasnosis, Anaplasnosis. (2) Sheep and Goats. - Rinderpest, Foot and Mouth Diseases, Anthrax, Rabies, Blue Tongue, Brucellosis, Sheep Pox, CCPP, contagious Ecthema, Goat Pox. (3) Horses, Donkeys and Mules. - Glanders, Anthrax, EIA, Equine Influenza, Rhinopnecumonitis, Trypenosomiasis. (4) Pigs - Hog Cholera, Foot and Mouth Diseases, Rinderpest, Anthrax. (5) Poultry. - Ranikhet Disease, Fowl Pox, Bacillary, Diarrhoea, Infectious Bronchitis, Marek's Disease, Infectious Coryza, ILT Gumboro CRD and Fowl Cholera. (6) Dogs and Cats.- Rabies, Distempar, Parvovirus, Infection, Leptospirosis, Hepatitis.