S.I. No. 147/1952 - Foot and Mouth Disease Order, 1950 (Amendment) Order, 1952.

S.I. No. 147 of 1952.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ORDER, 1950 (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1952.

I, THOMAS WALSH, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1949 and the Agriculture Act, 1931 (No. 8 of 1931), hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Foot and Mouth Disease Order, 1950 (Amendment) Order, 1952.

2. The Foot and Mouth Disease Order, 1950 ( S.I. No. 79 of 1950 ), is hereby amended by the substitution for Article 24 of the following Articles:—

24.—(1) A person landing in the State shall, when requested by a veterinary inspector or other authorised officer of the Minister, furnish the following information:—

(a) his full name and full postal address;

(b) the address to which he is proceeding in the State; and

(c) such other information as the Minister may consider necessary.

(2) The information shall, if the Minister thinks fit, be furnished by such person in writing on a form to be provided by the Minister for the purpose and, in that event, the shipping or air company concerned shall cause a copy of the form to be supplied to, and shall provide such facilities, on board ship or plane as the case may be, and at the landing place, as the Minister may require for the furnishing of the information by, each such person and the examination of such information.

24A.—(1) This Article applies to the following persons landing in the State:—

(a) a person who, at any time during the preceding twenty-eight days, has been or, in the opinion of a veterinary inspector or other authorised officer of the Minister, is likely to have been—

(i) on any land or premises infected with foot and mouth disease, or

(ii) engaged in or employed in connection with the buying or selling or the shipping or unshipping of animals or carcases in any country other than a country specified in the First Schedule to the Foreign Animals Order, 1931 (S. R. & O., No. 9 of 1931), or Northern Ireland, or

(iii) on any farm or in contact with any animals in such country, or

(iv) associated in the course of his trade or profession with a slaughterhouse or a premises in which meat was bought, sold or stored; and

(b) any other person whose landing in the State is, in the opinion of a veterinary inspector or other authorised officer of the Minister, attended with the risk of the spread of foot and mouth disease.

(2) A person to whom this Article applies shall, on each occasion of his entering any wharf, aerodrome or place, before leaving, submit himself and his clothes (including boots, rugs, overalls and all wearing apparel carried by him at the time) and his baggage to disinfection in the manner there provided for the purpose.

24B. Where a veterinary inspector or other authorised officer of the Minister is of opinion that the landing in the State of any farm implement, utensil, vehicle or other thing may be attended with the risk of the spread of foot and mouth disease, such farm implement, utensil, vehicle or thing shall, before being moved from the landing place be disinfected to the satisfaction of the inspector."

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 30th day of May, 1952.

(Signed) THOMAS WALSH,

Minister for Agriculture.