S.I. No. 11/1971:

BRUCELLOSIS IN CATTLE (DECLARATION OF CLEARANCE AREAS) ORDER, 1971.

BRUCELLOSIS IN CATTLE (DECLARATION OF CLEARANCE AREAS) ORDER, 1971.

I, James M. Gibbons, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, it appearing to me to be necessary for the purpose of the progressive eradication of brucellosis in cattle, hereby, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 and 19 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1966 (No. 6 of 1966), order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Brucellosis in Cattle (Declaration of Clearance Areas) Order, 1971.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of February, 1971.

2. (1) Such area as consists of the administrative county of Meath is hereby declared to be an area in which brucellosis is to be eradicated.

(2) A holding situate partly within the area to which paragraph (1) of this Article relates (other than a holding which is also partly situate in an area which, before the making of this Order, has been declared to be an area in which brucellosis is to be eradicated) shall, for the purposes of this Order, be deemed to be wholly within the area.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 19th day of January, 1971.

JAMES GIBBONS,

Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order declares County Meath to be a Clearance Area for the purpose of eradicating brucellosis in cattle.