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The owner's statement.
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11.—(1) The owner of any animals which are delivered on or after the appointed day to a shipowner for shipment from a port in Saorstát Eireann to a port in Great Britain or the agent of such owner shall prepare in the form prescribed by the Trustees and deliver to such shipowner a statement in writing (hereinafter called the owner's statement) containing the following particulars, that is to say:—
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(a) the number (in writing and in figures) and a description of such animals corresponding to the number and description thereof given by such owner in the application made by him to the veterinary inspector of the Department of Lands and Agriculture for a certificate of health required in respect of such animals under any order made under the Diseases of Animals Acts and for the time being in force, and
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(b) the name and the address of such owner.
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(2) The owner of such animals as aforesaid or the agent of such owner shall in the manner prescribed by the Trustees affix to the owner's statement adhesive stamps of the appropriate value having regard to the scale of charges fixed by this Act in respect of the shipment of such animals and such affixture shall be made before such statement is delivered by such owner or the agent of such owner to the shipowner to whom the animals to which such statement relates are delivered for shipment as aforesaid.
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(3) Every owner's statement stamped in accordance with this section shall be delivered to the said shipowner at the same time as the certificate of health relating to the animals to which such statement relates is delivered to such shipowner.
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(4) The shipowner to whom an owner's statement is delivered under this section shall, before taking on board the animals to which such statement relates, satisfy himself that such statement contains the particulars which it is required by this section to contain and that having regard to the number and nature of the animals to which such statement relates there are duly affixed thereto adhesive stamps of the appropriate value in accordance with the scale of charges fixed by this Act.
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(5) Where the shipowner is satisfied—
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(a) that the owner's statement delivered to him under this section does not contain the particulars which the owner's statement is required by this section to contain, or
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(b) that the particulars contained therein are inaccurate or misleading in any material respect, or are insufficient having regard to the provisions of this section, or
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(c) that the said statement is not duly stamped in accordance with this section,
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then and in any such case the shipowner may refuse to take on board the animals to which such statement relates.
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(6) If a shipowner takes on board any animals in respect of which an owner's statement is required by this section to be delivered to him and so takes on board such animals without the delivery to him of an owner's statement duly stamped in accordance with this section such shipowner shall be liable to pay to the Trustees and the Trustees shall be entitled to recover from such shipowner as a civil debt either, as the case may require, the whole of the charges payable under this Act in respect of such animals or so much of such charges as are not paid by means of the stamps affixed to such owner's statement.
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(7) Every owner's statement which is delivered to a shipowner under this section shall be retained by such shipowner for a period of six months from the date of such delivery and such shipowner shall, during the said period, produce such statement to the secretary to the Trustees for inspection by him if and whenever requested by him so to do.
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