S.I. No. 152/1962 - Bovine Tuberculosis (Clearance Area) (Special Controls) (Amendment) Order, 1962.


S.I. No. 152 of 1962.

BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS (CLEARANCE AREA) (SPECIAL CONTROLS) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1962.

I, PATRICK SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, it appearing to me to be necessary for the purpose of the progressive eradication of bovine tuberculosis, do hereby, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 22 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, and section 2 of the Diseases of Animals (Bovine Tuberculosis) Act, 1957 (No. 14 of 1957), as amended by section 5 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1960 (No. 26 of 1960), order as follows :

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Bovine Tuberculosis (Clearance Area) (Special Controls) (Amendment) Order, 1962.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 3rd day of September, 1962.

2. In the definition of " the area " contained in Article 2 of the Bovine Tuberculosis (Clearance Area) (Special Controls) Order, 1962 ( S.I. No. 87 of 1962 ), the following paragraphs are hereby inserted after paragraph (a) :—

"(a1) the administrative county of Carlow.

(a2) the administrative county of Wicklow excluding that part of the county consisting of the rural district of Baltinglass No. 1 as existing immediately before the 1st day of October, 1925."

3.—(1) The Bovine Tuberculosis (Control of Movement and Public Sales of Cattle) (No. 2) Order, 1961, ( S.I. No. 266 of 1961 ), as amended by the Orders specified in paragraph (2) of this Article shall, in so far as it applies to the areas referred to in this Order, cease to have effect.

(2) The Orders referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article are the Bovine Tuberculosis (Control of Movement and Public Sales of Cattle) (No. 2) (Amendment) Order, 1962 ( S.I. No. 43 of 1962 ), and the Bovine Tuberculosis (Control of Movement and Public Sales of Cattle) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 2) Order, 1962 ( S.I. No. 86 of 1962 ).

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 27th day of August, 1962.

PATRICK SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order, by extending the provisions of the Bovine Tuberculosis (Clearance Area) (Special Controls) Order, 1962, to Counties Carlow and Wicklow (excluding the rural district of Baltinglass No. 1)— (a) regulates the movement of cattle into that area and the movement of cattle into and out of herds in the area; (b) controls public sales of cattle in the area; (c) prohibits the tuberculin testing of cattle in the area, except with the permission of the Minister, and (d) requires, in certain circumstances, the surrender to the Department of identity cards and ear-tags relating to cattle.

It revokes the Bovine Tuberculosis (Control of Movement and Public Sales of Cattle) (No. 2) Order, 1961 ( S.I. No. 266 of 1961 ), as amended, in so far as it applies to the area mentioned.