Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsSealing of infected premises
| 4. On receipt of information or on representations made by a veterinary surgeon that; any contagious disease specified in the First Schedule hereto (hereinafter referred to as a "specified disease') has occurred, the Director shall, if he considers it necessary to do so to prevent the specified disease or the likelihood of its spread, report the matter to the Magistrate and apply for a direction to seal for a prescribed period of time the infected premises or any part thereof, within which such specified disease has occurred; and the Magistrate shall give such direction as he may think in the circumstances if he is of opinion that the sealing of the premises is necessary to prevent the specified disease or the likelihood of its spread. |