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United Kingdom legislation
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 1878
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Long title
| An Act for making better provision respecting Contagious and Infectious Diseases of Cattle and other Animals; and for other purposes.
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Citation
| 41 & 42 Vict.
c. 74
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Royal assent
| 16 August 1878
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Commencement
| 30 September 1878, except as otherwise expressed
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The
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 1878
(
41 & 42 Vict.
c. 74) was an
Act
of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
passed by
Benjamin Disraeli
's
Conservative
government.
A
select committee
was appointed in 1877 to investigate animal diseases. The resulting Act established central rather than local control over all outbreaks of animal disease.
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The agriculturist
Jacob Wilson
considered the Act "an undoubted benefit conferred upon the agricultural interest by the Conservative Government".
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: 12
It was opposed by the
Radicals
.
[4]
: 13
See also
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References
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Further reading
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- Lely, John Mounteney. "The Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 1878". The Statutes of Practical Utility. (Chitty's Statutes). Fifth Edition. Sweet and Maxwell. Stevens and Sons. London. 1894. Volume 1. Title "Animals". Subtitle "Animals (Diseases)". Pages
18
to 56.
- Paterson, William (ed). "Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878". The Practical Statutes of the Session 1878. Law Times Office. London. 1878. Pages
347
to 397.
- Philip Henry Bagenal. A Digest of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, 41 & 42 Vict., c. 74: and of the Orders of the Lords Justices and Privy Council of Ireland, for bringing the same Into operation. To which is Appended the full Text of the Act and of the Orders in Council, a Summary of the Principal Statutes incorporated therewith, and a Copious Index, prepared especially for the working of the Act in Ireland. Alex Thom. Dublin. 1879. Reviewed at "Reviews" (1879) 13 Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal
401
(26 July).
- Jonathan Spain, 'Free trade, protectionism and the 'food of the people': the Liberal opposition to the Cattle Diseases Bill of 1878', in Eugenio F. Biagini (ed.),
Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865-1931
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 168?192.