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The shipper's statement.
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17.—(1) Where the owner of any animals delivers, on or after the appointed day, such animals to a shipowner for shipment from a port in the State to a British landing place, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—
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(a) such owner shall before so delivering such animals deliver to such shipowner in duplicate a statement (in this Act referred to as the shipper's statement) in writing in the prescribed form containing the following particulars, that is to say:—
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(i) the name and address of such owner,
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(ii) the number and a description of such animals corresponding to the number and description thereof given by such owner in the application made by him to the veterinary inspector of the Department of Agriculture for a certificate of health required in respect of such animals under any order made under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1938 and for the time being in force,
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(iii) in respect of each animal to which such statement relates, the sum which is in the opinion of such owner, the value of such animal;
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(b) such owner shall before delivering such statement to such shipowner affix in the prescribed manner to one of the said duplicates levy stamps of a face value equal to the levies payable under this Act in respect of such animals;
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(c) the shipper's statement shall be delivered by such owner to such shipowner at the same time as the said certificate of health relating to such animals is delivered to such shipowner;
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(d) such shipowner shall not take such animals on board unless he is satisfied that the number and description of such animals correspond to the number and description contained in such statement and that one of the duplicates of such statement has affixed thereto the levy stamps required by paragraph (b) of this sub-section;
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(e) if such shipowner takes on board any such animals without the delivery to him of the shipper's statement covering such animals and duly stamped in accordance with this sub-section, such shipowner shall pay to the Board a sum equal to the whole of the levies payable under this Act in respect of such animals or so much of the said levies as is not represented by levy stamps affixed to such statement, and such sum shall be a debt due by such shipowner to the Board and shall be recoverable as a simple contract debt;
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(f) such shipowner shall upon receiving such statement deliver as soon as may be to the Board the duplicate upon which the levy stamps have been affixed.
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(2) References in this Act to the declared value of any animal which has been shipped from a port in the State to a British landing place shall be construed as references to the value of such animal as set out in the shipper's statement relating to such animal which has been delivered in accordance with this section by the owner thereof to the shipowner who ships such animal.
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