Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Domestic Animal Infectious Diseases Control (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ordinance No. 35, 1953).

This Ministerial Ordinance, consisting of 65 articles divided into six Chapters, deals with pathogens of piroplasmosis, anaplasmosis, and avian salmonellosis prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries referred to in the table of Article 2 paragraph 1 of the Act on Domestic Animal Infectious Diseases Control and the table of Article 1 of the Government Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Domestic Animal Infectious Diseases Control (Government Ordinance No. 235, 1953; shall are listed in the attached table. Newcastle disease prescribed by the Ministerial Ordinance referred to in the table of Article 2 paragraph 1 of the Act and the table of Article 1 of the Government Ordinance shall be the following: (1) Newcastle disease, whose ICPI (index indicating pathogenicity of a pathogen obtained in an intracerebral inoculation test; of the pathogen is 0.7 or more in one-day old chicks. (2) Newcastle disease to which both of the following items are applied: a) Of the 113rd to 116th amino acid residues of the F protein of the causative agent, three or more are estimated to be an arginine or a lysine residue; b) The 117th amino acid residue of the F protein of the causative agent is estimated to be a phenylalanine residue. The animal infectious diseases prescribed by the Ministerial Ordinance shall be rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, foot-and-mouth disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy.