Slaughter of Animals, Act, 1935

Regulations.

31.—(1) The Minister may by order make regulations for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say:—

(a) prescribing the procedure of sanitary authorities in relation to the issue of slaughter licences;

(b) prescribing the registers and records to be kept by sanitary authorities in relation to slaughter licences;

(c) the communication by sanitary authorities to other sanitary authorities of particulars of the slaughter licences issued by such first-mentioned sanitary authorities and of the revocations and suspensions of such licences;

(d) making available for the use of members of the Gárda Síochána and such other persons as the Minister thinks proper of information in the possession of sanitary authorities in relation to the issue and revocation of slaughter licences;

(e) the prevention of the issue (otherwise than by way of renewal) of a slaughter licence to a person who already holds a slaughter licence;

(f) prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in this Part of this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed.

(2) Every regulation made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling such regulation is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after such regulation is so laid before it, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such regulation.

(3) It shall be the duty of every sanitary authority to whom regulations made under this section apply to carry out in all respects such regulations and to perform the duties imposed on them by such regulations.