Clause 22

A veterinary authority may conduct a post-mortem examination of the carcase of any animal or bird and may remove such portions of the carcase which he considers necessary for laboratory examination. For the purposes of such examination, the veterinary authority may give written directions for such carcase to be delivered to him at a specified place and time, and no such carcase shall be removed from such place after being delivered without the permission of the veterinary authority:Provided that no person shall be required to deliver the carcase of any animal or bird at any place more than three miles from the place at which such carcase is at the time such written directions are given.

A veterinary authority may give written directions for the carcase of an animal or bird which has been buried to be exhumed for the purpose of a post-mortem examination.

Any person who fails without lawful excuse to comply with any written direction, given under the provisions of subsection (1) or (2) of this section, shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.