Orissa Animal Contagious Diseases Act, 1949.

This Act is enacted to provide for the prevention and control of contagious diseases affacting animals.
The diseases specified in the Schedule in Appendix I shall in the first instance be scheduled diseases for the purpose of this Act. The Provincial Government may appoint any peraon they think fit to be an Inspector for any or all of the purposes of the Act, and may define the area within which he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties incidental to such purposes. The Act further makes provisions for: power to regulate inter- provincial trade and to control transrort of animals and things which may spread diseases, appointment of veterinary surgeons, power to control traffic in infective animals, duty of certain persons to report diseases, isolation of infective animals, examination by Veterinary Surgeon, compensation for animals deetroyod, inspection, penalties, etc.