Live Stock Breeding Act, 1925

Application of this Act.

21.—(1) This Act shall apply to all bulls of such age as shall be prescribed for that purpose by regulations made under this Act, save that—

(a) this Act shall not apply to a bull kept solely for experimental purposes under and in accordance with the written authority of the Minister, and

(b) in the case of a bull lawfully imported into Saorstát Eireann after it has attained the prescribed age and in respect of which the prescribed conditions are complied with, this Act shall not apply to the bull until the expiration of the prescribed period after its importation into Saorstát Eireann.

(2) The Minister may at any time after the appointed day by order apply the provisions of this Act with such modifications as may be specified in such order to boars or rams or to both boars and rams, and any such order shall have effect as if enacted in this Act, but may be varied or revoked by any subsequent order of the Minister.