S.I. No. 353/1998:

DISEASES OF ANIMALS (NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES ORDER) 1992 (AMENDMENT ORDER) 1998.

DISEASES OF ANIMALS (NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES ORDER) 1992 (AMENDMENT ORDER) 1998.

I, Joe Walsh, Minister for Agriculture and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 , 12 , 13 and 27 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1966 (No. 6 of 1966), as adapted by the Agriculture, Food and Forestry (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 1997 ( S.I. No. 302 of 1997 hereby order as follows

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Diseases of Animals (Notification of Infectious Diseases) Order 1992 (Amendment) Order 1998.

(2) This order shall come into operation on the ninteenth day of September 1998.

(3) The Diseases of Animals (Notification of Infectious Diseases) Order 1992, and this Order may be cited together as the Diseases of Animals (Notification of Infectious Diseases) Orders, 1992 to 1998

2. The Diseases of Animals (Notification of Infectious Diseases) Order, 1992 ( S.I. No. 251 of 1992 ) is hereby amended by the addition of an Article 4 as follows:

"4. In respect of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome the following shall apply:

Unless it is accompanied by, and is moved in accordance with conditions specified in, a permit issued for its movement by a veterinary inspector --

an animal or animal carcase which is diseased, which is suspected of being diseased or which has been exposed, by contact or otherwise, to infection with a disease,

shall not be moved out of the premises or other land on which it or they happen to be on the date of the relevant notice given pursuant to Article 3 of this Order."

Given under my Official Seal this day 19th of September 1998

Joe Walsh,

Minister for Agriculture and Food

This Order extends the diseases to which movement conditions will be applied to include Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome.