S.I. No. 901/1927 - 19/05/1927: Sheep Dipping (Regulation) Order Of 1927.

ORDER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION.

SHEEP DIPPING (REGULATION) ORDER OF 1927.

(Dated 19th May, 1927.)

The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in them under the joint operation of the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899, and of the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1914, and of every other power enabling them in this behalf, do, with the concurrence of the Minister for Lands and Agriculture, hereby order:—

Prescribed Period of Immersion of Sheep in an Approved Sheep Dip.

1.—(1) Where, by an Order of the Department, or by any regulation of a Local Authority made thereunder, the dipping of sheep is required, the sheep shall be dipped by a thorough immersion of the whole body, including the head and ears, in a Sheep Dip approved by the Department for Sheep Scab and Sheep Dipping, or purporting to be so approved. The immersion, except as regards the head and ears, shall be for a period of not less than one minute.

(2) In the note at the foot of the Second Schedule to the Sheep Scab (Ireland) Order of 1905 relating to the required period of immersion in certain Sheep Dips approved by the Department for Sheep Scab, the words " one minute " shall be substituted for the words "half a minute", and the said Order shall be read and have effect accordingly.

Short Title.

2.—This Order may be cited as the Sheep Dipping (Regulation) Order of 1927.

IN WITNESS whereof the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction have hereunto set their Official Seal this Nineteenth day of May, Nineteen hundred and twenty-seven.

F. J. MEYRICK,

Secretary.

I concur in the foregoing Order.

P: HOGAN,

Minister for Lands and Agriculture.