S.I. No. 16/1950:

DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT, 1894 (EXTENSION TO POULTRY AND POULTRY DISEASES) ORDER, 1950.

DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT, 1894 (EXTENSION TO POULTRY AND POULTRY DISEASES) ORDER, 1950.

I, JAMES M. DILLON, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the joint operation of the Agriculture Acts, 1931 to 1948, and the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1949, and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby after consultation with the Minister for Finance, order as follows :--

1. This Order may be cited as the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894 (Extension to Poultry and Poultry Diseases) Order, 1950.

2. In this Order--

the expression " the Act " means the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, as amended by any subsequent enactment ; the expression " the relevant sections " means sections 4, 10, 19, 20, 22, 25, 43, 44, 56, 65 and 74 and all other sections (including sections relating to offences and legal proceedings) containing provisions relative to or consequent on the said sections.

3. For the purposes of the relevant sections of the Act, the meaning of the word " animals " in the Act shall be and is hereby extended so as to include domestic fowls, turkeys, ducks, geese, guinea-fowls, pigeons, pheasants and partridges.

4. For the purposes of the relevant sections of the Act, the meaning of the word " disease " in the Act shall be and is hereby extended so as to include the diseases of poultry set out in the Schedule to this Order.

5. (1) The Diseases of Animals Act, 1894 (Extension to Poultry and Poultry Diseases) (No. 2) Order, 1938 ( S. R. & O. No. 125 of 1938 ), is hereby revoked.

(2) The Poultry, Poultry Carcases and Poultry Eggs (Restriction on Importation) Order, 1949 ( S.I. No. 293 of 1949 ) shall have effect as if it were made immediately after the making of this Order.

SCHEDULE.

DISEASES OF POULTRY.

Bacillary white diarrhœa.

Blackhead (entero-hepatitis).

Fowl typhoid.

Tuberculosis.

Fowl pox.

Fowl cholera.

Fowl paralysis.

Contagious bronchitis (laryngo-tracheitis).

Leukæmia.

Coccidiosis.

Fowl pest in any of its forms (including Newcastle disease and fowl plague).

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 21st day of January, 1950.

(Signed) JAMES M. DILLON,

Minister for Agriculture.