No. 62/1928:

THE FOREIGN ANIMALS (IRISH FREE STATE) ORDER OF 1928.

THE FOREIGN ANIMALS (IRISH FREE STATE) ORDER OF 1928.

ORDER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION FOR IRELAND.

(Dated 3rd September, 1928).

The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in them under the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899 ; the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1914, and of every other power enabling them in this behalf, do, with the concurrence of the Minister for Agriculture, hereby order:—

In this Order :

"Animals" means cattle, sheep, goats, all other ruminating animals and swine.

"Authorised" means authorised by the Department.

"Country" does not include Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Irish Free State.

"Inspector" means an Inspector of the Department and includes a Veterinary Inspector of the Department.

"Litter" means straw or other substance commonly used for bedding or otherwise for or about animals.

"Master" includes a person having the charge or command of a vessel.

"Scheduled Country" means a country specified in the Schedule to this Order or included in the Schedule to this Order by any subsequent Order.

"The Act of 1894" means the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894.

"The Department" means the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland.

Other terms have the same meaning as in the Act of 1894.

2. It shall not be lawful to bring into a port in the Irish Free State any animal brought (a) from a port in any country other than a scheduled country, or (b) from a port in a scheduled country if the animal since it was taken on board at such port has entered a port in any country other than a scheduled country, provided that this Article shall not apply to any vessel not bound for a port in the Irish Free State which comes into such port under stress of weather or for repairs or for any purpose other than the delivery or shipment of cargo.

3 CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO VESSELS COMING INTO PORT IN CIRCUMSTANCES PROVIDED FOR IN FOREGOING ARTICLE.

3. In the case of a vessel not bound to a port in the Irish Free State which comes into such a port under stress of weather or for repairs or for any other purpose than the delivery or shipment of cargo, the following conditions shall apply if the vessel has on board an animal brought from any country other than a scheduled country or if the vessel with an animal aboard has entered a port in a country other than a scheduled country, viz. :—

(1) No person, except Inspectors of the Department, Officers of Customs and Excise, and authorised persons, while actually engaged in tending the animal or cleansing or disinfecting the pen, shall enter a pen in which the animal is, or has recently been kept, until the pen has been first cleansed and then disinfected.

(2) Every person upon leaving a pen in which the animal is or has recently been kept shall thoroughly wash his hands with soap and water, and disinfect his boots, and every such person landing from the vessel shall take such other steps as an Inspector may declare necessary to disinfect his clothes.

(3) (a) All parts of the vessel with which any animal or its dung has come in contact, and all fittings, pens, hurdles, and utensils used for or about any such animal shall, so long as such animal remains on board, be first cleansed and then disinfected at intervals not exceeding twenty-four hours unless in the meantime any animal has died or been slaughtered when the prescribed cleansing and disinfection shall be carried out forthwith.

(b) While any part of the vessel is being cleansed and disinfected any animal therein shall be temporarily removed to another part of the vessel, which other part shall also be cleansed and disinfected immediately the animal returns to its original pen.

(c) If and when no animal remains on board, the said parts of the vessel and all fittings, pens, hurdles and utensils shall forthwith be finally cleansed and disinfected.

(4) All dung of any animal, and all litter, scrapings and sweepings removed from the pens, shall be thoroughly mixed with quicklime and thereafter without delay be destroyed by fire on board the vessel or disposed of as an Inspector or other authorised Officer of the Department may direct, but in such a manner as effectually to prevent their contact with animals.

(5) Where by this Article disinfection is required, the place or thing, or the part thereof, required to be disinfected shall be thoroughly coated or washed with

(a) a five per cent. solution of standard phenol ; or

(b) a one per cent. (minimum) solution of chloride of lime containing not less than thirty per cent. of available chlorine; or

(c) a four per cent. (minimum) solution of carbolic acid (containing not less than ninety-five per cent. of actual carbolic acid); or

(d) a disinfectant equal in disinfective efficiency to the above-mentioned solution of carbolic acid.

4. Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to authorise the landing of carcases, dung, fodder, litter, fitting, pen, hurdle, utensil or other thing contrary to the provisions of the Foreign Animals (Ireland) Order of 1901, or otherwise to interfere with the operation of that Order.

5. (1) If any animal is brought into a port in contravention of this Order, the owner and the charterer and the Master of the vessel conveying the animal shall each according to and in respect of his or their own acts and defaults be deemed guilty of an offence against the Act of 1894.

(2) If any person fails to carry out or observe any direction as regards cleansing or disinfection he shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the Act of 1894.

(3) If anything is done or omitted to be done with respect to any vessel in contravention of this Order, the owner and the charterer and the Master of the vessel in which the same is done or omitted to be done shall each, according to, and in respect of, his or their own acts or omissions, be deemed guilty of an offence against the Act of 1894.

6. This Order shall come into operation on the First day of October, 1928.

7. This Order may be cited as the Foreign Animals (Irish Free State) Order of 1928.

IN WITNESS whereof, the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland have hereunto set their Official Seal, this third day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

H. G. SMITH,

On behalf of the Secretary.

I concur in the foregoing Order.

P. HOGAN,

Minister for Agriculture.

SCHEDULE.

COUNTRIES EXCEPTED.