International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Act, 1987

International carriage to which Act applies.

3.—(1) This Act applies to the carriage of perishable foodstuffs into the State or from the State into another State which is a Contracting Party to ATP by road or by rail or by a sea journey of less than 150 kilometres without transloading of the foodstuffs or by any combination of those means of carriage, other than—

(a) carriage by road or by rail within the State only, or within another State only, whether before or after a sea journey of 150 kilometres or more between those States, and

(b) carriage in containers by road or by rail through the State or another State without transloading of the foodstuffs where such carriage is preceded or followed by a sea journey of 150 kilometres or more.

(2) In this Act “international carriage” means carriage to which, by virtue of subsection (1), this Act applies.