Control of Bulls For Breeding Act, 1985

Offences.

8.—(1) A person who has in his possession an unregistered bull contrary to section 2 of this Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £600.

(2) Every holder of a certificate or a permit who fails to produce or cause to be produced the certificate or permit, as the case may be, on any occasion when he is required pursuant to section 4 of this Act so to do shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £250.

(3) Every person who, knowing the name and address of the owner of a bull or of the person by whom a bull is kept refuses, when required pursuant to section 4 (3) of this Act by an inspector or a member of the Garda Síochána so to do, to give to such inspector or such member, as the case may be, the name and address required shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £250.

(4) A person who obstructs or impedes an inspector or a member of the Garda Síochána in the exercise of the powers conferred on such inspector or such member by section 5 of this Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500.

(5) A person who obstructs or impedes a person exercising the powers conferred on him by virtue of section 6 of this Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500.