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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

2007 No. 32

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

  Made 19th January 2007 
  Coming into operation 12th February 2007 

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 Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 12th February 2007.

Interpretation
     2. —(1) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means The Welfare of Animals (Transport) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006[3].

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

Amendment of The Welfare of Animals (Transport) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006
     3. The Welfare of Animals (Transport) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 are amended in accordance with regulations 4 to 8.

     4. In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation)—

     5. In regulation 3 (Extension of the definition of "animals") of the principal Regulations after the words "Part I" there shall be inserted the words "and Part II".

     6. Regulation 24 (Powers of inspectors) of the principal Regulations shall be amended as follows—

     7. In regulation 27 (Production of plans) of the principal Regulations, after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted—

     8. Regulation 29 (Offences) of the principal Regulations shall be omitted.



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


19th January 2007

L.S.


E. Redmond
A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations amend the Welfare of Animals (Transport) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (the principal Regulations).

Regulation 4 amends regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations by inserting a definition of "animal" and "inspector".

Regulation 5 amends regulation 3 of the principal Regulations, by inserting a reference to Part II of Schedule 1 to the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

Regulation 6 amends paragraphs (3) and (7) of regulation 24 of the principal Regulations, it also inserts a new paragraph (9), the effect of which is to specify that a person who fails to comply with a notice served under regulation 24(2) or, (6) is guilty of an offence.

Regulation 7 amends regulation 27 of the principal Regulations by inserting a new paragraph (3), the effect of which is to specify that failure to comply with regulation 27(1) constitutes an offence.

Regulation 8 omits regulation 29 of the principal Regulations.

Notes:

 [1] S.I. 2000/2812back

[2] 1972 c. 68back

[3] S.R. 2006 No. 538back

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


ISBN 978 0 337 96818 1


 © Crown copyright 2007

Prepared 12 February 2007

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