Owners of dogs who may entertain the intention of taking them to England would do well to note the provisions of an order recently issued by the Board of Agriculture regulating the landing into Great Britain of dogs brought from abroad. The regulations are most stringent. They oblige the owner of a dog to apply to the Secretary of the Board, in London, for a licence subject to all sorts of more or less trying restrictions and regulations previous to Tunding, which means that if the licence is not forthcoming, the dog, possibly " great favourite or a valuable ennnal, will have to be destroyed. In fact, it practically amounts to this, that no dogs ca be taken to Great Britain unless a licence is procured, or at least applied for, before embarkation. The following isa precis of the order Prohibition of the importation of dogs.
2.—Licences for importation in particu lar cases.
3.—Any application for a licence under the preceding article is to be made in writing to the Secretary, Board of Ayriculture, 4, Whitehall Place, London, S.W., and is to be accompanied by a statement signed by the owner of the doy, or by his agent authorised in writing, containing the following information:—(i) Full description of the dog for purposes of identification (li) the country from which it is proposed to be brought; (i the port at which it is proposed to be landed; and (iv) the place to which it is proposed after being landed to be moved.fur the purposes of such detention and isolation as may be required by the Board, and also the route by which it is proposed to be moved to such place of detention.
4.—Conditions may be inserted in any licence for prescribing and regulating the detention and isolation of the dog for any period not exceeding six months.
5.—Applicant for licence to satisfy the Board that proper and suitable arrangements can be made for detention and isolation.
6.—Unlawful landing entails the same penalties as are imposed on persons import Ing goods the importation whereof is prohibited. The dog in respect of which the offence is committed to be forfeited.
7.—Extension of certain sections of Diseases of Animals Act, 1894.
8,—Local authority to enforce Order.
9.—Offences.
10.—The Order comes into operation on the 15th of September, 1897.—Hongkong Daily Press.
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