S.I. No. 134/1952:

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE (IMPORTATION OF PLANTS) ORDER, 1952.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE (IMPORTATION OF PLANTS) ORDER, 1952.

I, THOMAS WALSH, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the joint operation of the Agriculture Acts, 1931 to 1948, and the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1949, and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows:--

1. This Order may be cited as the Foot and Mouth Disease (Importation of Plants) Order, 1952.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. In this Order--

the expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Agriculture ;

the word " plants " includes all trees and shrubs, raw vegetables (including potatoes, potato haulms and leaves), tomatoes, grapes, cider apples, cut flowers, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, corms, roots, layers, cuttings and other parts of trees, shrubs and plants.

4. A person shall not import any plants unless such plants are--

(a) grown in and imported from Northern Ireland, or

(b) imported under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf granted by the Minister and such licence is at the time of importation delivered to the proper officer of Customs and Excise.

5.--(1) The Minister may at his discretion grant or refuse a licence under this Order.

(2) The Minister may attach to any licence granted under this Order such conditions as appear to him to be proper.

(3) The Minister may revoke any licence granted under this Order.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 20th day of May, 1952.

(Signed) THOMAS WALSH,

Minister for Agriculture.