Slaughtered and Detained Animals (Compensation) Act, 1986

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Scale of charges.

4.—(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the following section for section 9:

“9.— The owner of any animals which are delivered to a shipowner for shipment from any port in the State to any port in Great Britain shall, in the manner provided by this Act, pay to the Trustees for and in respect of such animals the appropriate charges in accordance with a scale of charges which is for the time being fixed by regulations made by the Minister after consultation with the Trustees.”.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on such day as the Minister shall fix by regulation.

(3) Every regulation made under section 9 (inserted by subsection (1) of this section) of the Principal Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.