Live Stock Breeding Act, 1925

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Inspection, etc., of bulls.

12.—(1) An inspector may inspect and examine and, in the prescribed cases, mark in the prescribed manner with the prescribed mark, and any member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or the Gárda Síochána may inspect and examine at all reasonable times any bull to which this Act applies or any bull which is reasonably believed by such inspector or member to be a bull to which this Act applies.

(2) Any inspector or any member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or the Gárda Síochána may for the purpose of exercising all or any of the powers conferred on him by this section enter at all reasonable times any lands or premises on which any such bull as is mentioned in the foregoing section is for the time being kept or is reasonably believed by such inspector or member to be so kept.

(3) Every person who shall obstruct or impede an inspector or any member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or the Gárda Síochána in the exercise of any of the powers conferred on him by this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.