(a) prescribing the breeds, kinds, classes and qualities of livestock which may be kept and bred in the province, or in specified parts of it;
(b) prescribing the measures to be taken to inspect livestock entering the province, and to determine their freedom from contagious or infectious diseases and undesirable qualities or characteristics generally and to place them in quarantine in proper cases;
(c) prescribing those species or classes of animal or livestock which the minister considers appropriate to exempt from the regulations or portions of the regulations;
(d) prescribing the sanitary condition of premises in which animals are kept on landing;
(e) governing the precautions to be taken to isolate landed livestock to prevent the spread of disease;
(f) prescribing the methods and procedures and requirements of veterinary testing to be applied to livestock;
(g) specifying the precautions to be taken on the landing of meats, raw hides or other parts of dead livestock which might carry infection;
(h) prescribing the disinfection of premises or vehicles and the destruction of straw, bedding or other materials with which livestock have been in contact and which might carry infection;
(i) prescribing the prohibition of moving livestock from the point of entry;
(j) prescribing the prohibition of the use of premises or vehicles considered to be infected or probably infected, and the prohibition of the use of ground considered to be infected for the keeping of livestock there;
(k) prescribing the duty to give to the proper authority notice of the presence or appearance of a disease among livestock;
(l) prescribing the providing of information by importers and dealers as to actual or proposed landings of livestock, and as to the conditions as regards animal diseases in the places from which the livestock are imported or proposed to be imported;
(m) prescribing rules for the moving, keeping, handling and treatment of livestock not apparently diseased but responding unsatisfactorily to standard tests for latent disease or proneness to disease;
(n) governing the records to be kept and the information to be supplied by all importers, dealers, keepers and breeders of livestock in the province; and the forms necessary for the above purposes;
(o) prescribing rules for the slaughter of livestock found to be dangerously infected; and for compensating owners of livestock ordered to be slaughtered;
(p) respecting rules for post-mortem examinations of the carcass or livestock slaughtered or found dead;
(q) prescribing the procedure for combating, controlling and eradicating a disease of livestock not so dealt with under another law;
(r) prescribing procedures for inspecting the foods given to animals, and for prohibiting the use of foods which either inherently or because of their source might convey infection;
(s) prescribing the conditions to be established and maintained in and about slaughter houses, and reports to be made by their operators;
(t) prescribing the control of the storage, sale and use of
(i) live and killed vaccines, and
(ii) drugs
intended for use on livestock;
(u) prescribing the licensing of importers of, dealers in and breeders and keepers of livestock and the inspection of their premises and livestock and the prevention and control of diseases found there, and for preventing the communication of diseases to other premises and livestock and for the withdrawal of the licences in case of wilful or persistent violation of the terms of this Act or of regulations;
(v) specifying the diseases of livestock which shall be considered infectious or contagious for the purpose of this Act;
(w) prescribing the tagging or marking of animals for identification;
(x) prescribing that the cost of tests, vaccinations, inoculations or treatments shall be paid by the owner of the livestock concerned;
(y) prescribing the prohibition of the transfer of laying fowls from 1 establishment to another after a certain period of laying in the former establishment; and
(z) generally, to give effect to the purpose of this Act.