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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND


2005 No. 584

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Salmonella in Broiler Flocks (Survey Powers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

  Made 22nd December 2005 
  Coming into operation 12th January 2006 

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, being designated [1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section.

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Salmonella in Broiler Flocks (Survey Powers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 12th January 2006.

Interpretation
    
2. —(1) In these Regulations—

    (2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[4] shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

Selection of holdings
     3. —(1) The Department shall be responsible for the selection of premises, in accordance with the Technical Specifications, for sampling.

    (2) The occupier or person in charge of a holding (or any employee or agent of the occupier or person in charge of a holding) shall, upon request, supply such information to the Department as it requires to assist it with the selection of holdings to be included in the survey for the purposes of the Commission Decision, including—

    (3) Any person who fails to comply with this regulation is guilty of an offence.

Powers of inspectors
    
4. —(1) An inspector shall, on producing some duly authenticated document showing his authority, have the right at all reasonable hours to enter a holding which has been selected for sampling, for the purposes of ascertaining in accordance with the Commission Decision—

    (2) In addition to his right under paragraph (1), an inspector may also enter a holding for the purposes of the enforcement of these Regulations.

    (3) When he has entered a holding an inspector may—

Offences
    
5. A person who—

is guilty of an offence.

Penalties
    
6. A person guilty of an offence under these Regulations shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on


22nd December 2005.

L.S.


Liam McKibben
A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations provide a power of entry to inspectors to undertake the sampling required by Commission Decision 2005/636/EC (concerning a financial contribution by the Community towards a baseline survey on the prevalence of Salmonella spp. in broiler flocks of Gallus gallus to be carried out in the Member States) to detect the prevalence of Salmonella spp. in broiler chickens.

Regulation 3 provides that the occupier or person in charge of a holding must provide information to the Department, upon request, to assist it with the selection of holdings to be included in the survey.

Regulation 4 provides inspectors with various powers including a power of entry and power to take samples of faecal material, to examine records and to make inquiries of any person.

Regulation 5 creates offences for obstructing an inspector exercising his powers under these Regulations and Regulation 6 sets out the applicable penalties.


Notes:

[1] S.I. 2000/2812back

[2] 1972 c 68back

[3] O.J. No. L 228, 3.9.2005, p 14back

[4] 1954 c.33(N.I.)back



ISBN 0 337 96298 7


 © Crown copyright 2005

Prepared 10 January 2006


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