Abattoirs Act, 1988

PART IV

Veterinary Control and Hygiene

Appointment of veterinary inspectors.

35.—(1) (a) Each local authority shall appoint one or more whole-time veterinary inspectors to carry out the functions conferred on a veterinary inspector under this Act.

(b) The first appointment pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection of a veterinary inspector by a local authority shall be made within six months after the commencement of this section.

(2) In addition to the appointment referred to in subsection (1) of this section, each local authority shall appoint such and so many other veterinary inspectors as it considers necessary.

(3) A local authority may appoint such and so many other officers and servants as it considers necessary to assist any veterinary inspector appointed by it in the performance of his duties.

(4) The provisions of section 59 of the Local Government Act, 1955 , shall apply to the appointment of a whole-time veterinary inspector pursuant to this section subject to the following modifications—

(a) a local authority shall not enter into the agreement referred to in the said section 59 unless the consent of the Minister has been first obtained, and

(b) the said agreement is entered into by not more than any two local authorities.

(5) A local authority that wishes, for the purposes of this Act, to enter into an agreement pursuant to section 59 (as modified by subsection (4) of this section) of the Local Government Act, 1955 , shall submit to the Minister such information in relation to the proposed agreement as the Minister may request and if any information so requested is not furnished by the local authority concerned the Minister shall not consider the request for his consent to the said proposed agreement.

(6) The Minister may, following consultation with the local authority concerned, if it appears to him that the duties and functions conferred on a local authority by this Act and the Regulations made thereunder are not being fulfilled by the local authority, direct that any agreement entered into, for the purposes of this Act, pursuant to section 59 (as modified by subsection (4) of this section) of the Local Government Act, 1955 , shall cease to have effect.