Offences

Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, proof whereof shall lie on him– (a) when required by this Act to keep any diseased animal separate from animals not so diseased, or to give any notice of such diseased animal within a prescribed period of time, fails to do so; (b) contravenes, or fails to comply with any directions given by an Officer under section 56; (c) refuses an Officer, acting in execution of this Act, admission to any land, place, or carrier which such Officer is entitled to enter or examine, or obstructs or impedes such Officer from so entering or examining, or otherwise in any respect obstructs or impedes an Officer or any police officer in the execution of his duty, or assists in any such obstructing or impeding; (d) throws or places or causes to be thrown or placed into or in any river, stream, drain, or other water, or into or in the sea within three miles of the shore, the carcass of an animal which has died of disease or has been slaughtered as diseased or suspected; (e) takes, or allows to be taken, unless otherwise required by this Act, or allows to stray, any diseased animal in or upon any public road, or public place; (f) digs up, or causes or allows to be dug up, the buried carcass of any animal which has been Belize Agricultural Health Authority [CAP. 211 53 slaughtered under this Act as diseased or suspected, or which has died or is suspected of having died from any disease; (g) takes or moves, or allows to be taken or moved, any products, biologicals, plant material, plant product, carcass, feed, litter, dung, restricted article or other thing, into or out of any infected place or infected area otherwise than in accordance with this Act; (h) allows any animal to stray into or out of any infected place or infected area; (i) takes, or allows to be taken, unless otherwise required by this Act, any restricted article into or out of any infected place or infected area; or (j) digs up, or causes or allows to be dug up, any restricted article into or out of any infected place or infected area, commits an offence against this Act.