Control of Bulls For Breeding Act, 1985

Production of certificate or permit for inspection.

4.—(1) It shall be the duty of every holder of a certificate or permit to produce, or cause to be produced, the certificate or permit, as the case may be, for inspection whenever the holder is required so to do by—

(a) an inspector, or

(b) a member of the Garda Síochána.

(2) A demand for the production of a certificate or, as the case may be, a permit shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to have been made to the holder of the certificate or permit if the demand is made verbally at the place where the bull to which the certificate or permit relates is kept to any person in the employment of the holder of the certificate or permit who, for the time being, has the care, charge or custody of the bull.

(3) It shall be the duty of—

(a) any person having custody of a bull, and

(b) the owner, or any person having the charge or management, of any lands or premises on which a bull is found,

if required by an inspector or by a member of the Garda Síochána to give, in so far as it is known to him, to the inspector or, as the case may be, the member of the Garda Síochána, the name and address of the owner of the bull and of the person by whom the bull is kept.