Cap. 10 Art. 126Prohibition to keep animals of the bovine species, etc., in certain localities, without licence of sanitary authority.

(1) No person shall, without a licence from the sanitary authority, the duration of which shall not exceed one year, keep on any premises within the limits mentioned in sub-article (2) of the last preceding article, any animal of the bovine species, or any pig, goat, sheep, horse, mule or donkey.

(2) The sanitary authority shall not grant any licence for the keeping of any of such animals in any cellar within the said limits; or for the keeping of any such animal in any other place within such limits, unless the floor thereof is of hard stone, asphalt or any other impervious material, and is connected with the public sewer in a manner approved by the sanitary authority and unless such place is provided with such ventilators as the sanitary authority may consider necessary.

(3) The Superintendent of Public Health may refuse to grant or renew any such licence whenever, in his opinion, the keeping of any of the said animals may cause a nuisance.

(4) The Minister responsible for public health may from time to time, on the advice of the General Services Board, direct, by means of a notice published in the Gazette, that all or any of the provisions of this article shall apply to any other locality not mentioned in sub-article (2) of the last preceding article.