Bengal Diseases of Animals Act, 1944 (Bengal Act 6 of 1944).

This Act aims to provide for the prevention of the spread of contagious diseases amongst livestock in West Bengal.
The Pradhan of the Gram Panchayat or the Livestock Development Assistant on receiving any report shall without delay communicate such report to the Block Livestock Development Officer who shall instruct the Veterinary Officer to proceed to the place where the livestock for the time being is kept and examine the livestock and inquire into the circumstances of the case. The State Government or such officer as it may authorise in this behalf may by notification published in the manner prescribed declare any area in which any contagious disease has broken out, or any area within which in the opinion of the State Government, or such officer, there is a danger of the spread of any such disease, to bean infected area. The Act further makes provisions, inter alia for: compulsory segregation and treatment of livestock and preventive vaccination or inoculation in infected areas, prohibition of movement of livestock into or out of infected areas, prohibition of sale or transfer of infective livestock, manner of burial or disposal of carcasses of infective livestock, power of Veterinary Officer to enter and inspect land, offences and penalties, etc.