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insurers may deduct the amount of compensation received by the owner before they make the payment (t). Persons are hable to lose the whole or part of the compensation if, in the opinion of the Board or the local authority, they have been guilt}^ of an offence against the Act, or the animal in question, being a foreign animal, was diseased at the time of its
landing
Sect.
By
2.
Statute.
when
com-
pensation may be w^^^^^^^-
(ii).
The Board may prescribe the mode of ascertaining the value animals, and may regulate applications for and payment compensation
of of
(x).
927. Compensation
for
animals slaughtered by the Board, and Funds from
and valuers employed for which comthe purposes of compensation, are paid out of an account kept payable, at the Bank of England called " The Cattle Pleuro-pneumonia Account for Great Britain " (?/). It is fed by money annually provided by Parliament (which is not to exceed £140, in any one year), and by the proceeds of sale of carcases of slaughtered animals. When, however, animals are slaughtered by the local authority, the compensation is to be paid out of the local rate (z). also the expenses of additional inspectors
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Sub-Sect.
928. The the
-Local Authorities,
most of Board are the
local authorities responsible for carrying out
provisions
contained
the
in
orders
of
the
Sheep Pox Order, 1895, s. 18 Glanders or Farcy Order, 1894, Foot and Mouth Disease Order, 1895, s. 22. The following table shows shortly the legal rate
s.
13
(3) (a)
When
Disease.
Cattle plague
the Animal
is
Half the value immediately before it became affected not to exceed £20
Full value before it was slaughtered not to exceed £40.
Three-fourths the value immediately before it became aifected not to exceed £30.
Ditto.
Pleuro-pneumonia
In other Cases.
actually aft'ected.
Swine fever
Half value before
.
Sheep pox
it
became
affected.
As the
local authority thinks expemaximum, one-fourth of dient value before the animal became diseased, minimum, £2 for a horse, 10s. for an ass or mule.
Glanders
Full value before
it
was slaughtered.
Ditto, not exceeding £4.
Ditto, not exceeding 40s.
Ditto.
Foot and mouth disease
Full value before
it
became
affected
.
Ditto
Diseases of Animals Act. 1894 (57 & 58 Yict. c. 57), s. 20 (5). Foot and Mouth Disease Order, 1895, s. 25; Sheep Pox s. 20 (7) Order, 1895, s. 12. See Cattle Plague Order, 1895, s. 15 (x) Act of 1894, s. 22 (xiv.), (xv.). (England), s. 16 (Scotland); Pleuro-pneumonia Order, 1895. s. 19 (England), Foot and Mouth Disease Order, 1895, s. 23 (England), s. 24 s. 20 (Scotland) Sheep Pox Order, 1895, s. 19 (England), s. 20 (Scotland) Animals (Scotland) (^Transit and General) Amendment Order, 1904, s. 13 (England), s. 14 (Scotland). The account opened under s. 2 of the repealed 1894, s. 17. (?/) Act of Contagious Diseases (Animals) Pleuro-pneumonia Act, 1890(53 & 54 Vict. c. 14), is continued; see s. 18 and the regulations contained in the Second Schedule to the Act of 1894. (t)
(u) Ibid.,
(z)
Ibid.,
s.
19.
y^ho local authorities.
