DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958

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DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 27



27.a8)1) The Department may by order designate any disease of, or organism
carried in, animals which in the opinion of the Department constitutes a risk
to human health.

(2) Where any disease or organism is for the time being designated under this
section, the Department may by order

(a)provide for any provision of this Act which has effect in relation to the
disease to have effect in relation thereto subject to such modifications as
may be specified in the order;

(b)apply any provision of this Act, subject to any modifications so specified,
in relation to the presence of the organism in an animal as if the presence of
the organism were a disease to which this Act applied.

(3) The Department may by order make provision for requiring a person who, in
such circumstances as are specified by the order, knows or has reason to
suspect that an animal of such description as is specified in the order is or
was

(a)affected with a disease designated under this section; or

(b)a carrier of an organism so designated,

(4) If it appears to the Department that a person may have information
relating to an animal affected with a disease designated under this section or
an animal which is a carrier of an organism so designated, the Department may
by notice in writing require him to furnish to such person and in such form
and within such period as are specified in the notice such information
relating to the animal as he possesses and is so specified.

(5) Where an inspector has reason to believe that an animal such as is
mentioned in sub-section (4) is or has been on any land he may, on production
if required of his credentials

(a)enter the land and make such tests and take such samples of any animal,
feeding stuff, litter, dung, vessel, pen, vehicle or other thing whatsoever
which is on or forms part of the land as he thinks appropriate for the purpose
of ascertaining whether such an animal is or has been on the land; and

(b)require the owner or person having charge of any animals on the land to
take such reasonable steps as the inspector may specify for the purpose of
collecting or restraining them so as to facilitate the exercise in relation to
them of the powers conferred on the inspector by paragraph (a).

(6) This section shall have effect in relation to poultry as it has effect in
relation to animals.

(7) In this section the expression "disease" is not restricted by its
definition in section 52 and the First Schedule.]

Part II (ss.2832) rep. by 1968 c.67 s.135 sch.8

1945 c.9

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DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 27