Animals Act, 1985
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Interpretation. |
1.—(1) In this Act— | |
“the Act of 1851” means the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1851 ; | ||
“the Act of 1935” means the Pounds (Provision and Maintenance) Act, 1935 ; | ||
“animal”, except in section 2 , means a bovine animal, horse, ass or other equine animal, sheep or goat; | ||
“damage” includes the death of, or injury to, any person (including any disease and any impairment of a person's physical or mental condition) and injury to or total or partial destruction of property; | ||
“local authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1 of the Act of 1935; | ||
“the Minister” means the Minister for Justice; | ||
“public road” means a road the responsibility for the maintenance of which lies on a road authority and includes a toll road within the meaning of the Local Government (Toll Roads) Act, 1979 , and, for the purposes of section 2 , also includes any highway; | ||
“road authority” means— | ||
(a) the council of a county, | ||
(b) the corporation of a county or other borough, or | ||
(c) the council of an urban district. | ||
(2) In this Act a reference to a section is to a section of this Act, unless it is indicated that reference to some other enactment is intended. | ||
(3) In this Act a reference to a subsection or paragraph is to the subsection or paragraph of the provision in which the reference occurs, unless it is indicated that reference to some other provision is intended. |