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General provisions as to infected places and areas.
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14.—(1) The Minister may prescribe—
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(a) the cases in which places and areas are to be declared to be infected with a disease;
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(b) the authority, mode and conditions by and on which declarations in that behalf are to be made;
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(c) the effect and consequences of such declarations;
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(d) the duration and discontinuance of such declarations; and
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(e) other matters connected with the making of such declarations.
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(2) The Minister may by order alter the limits of a place or area declared to be infected by disease.
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(3) Every place or area so declared infected shall be an infected place or area for the purposes of this Act.
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(4) Where an order is made declaring a place or area to be no longer an infected place or area then from the time specified in the order the place or area shall cease to be, or be in, an infected place or area.
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(5) An order or notice of the following description—
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(a) an order of the Minister or of a local authority declaring a place to be an infected place or area, or declaring a place or area to be no longer an infected place or area; or
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(b) a notice served in pursuance of directions of the Minister or of a local authority by virtue of an order made under this section,
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shall be conclusive evidence to all intents of the existence or cessation of the disease and of any other matter whereon the order or notice proceeds.
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