National Beef Assurance Scheme Act, 2000

Regulations regarding registration and identification of animals.

19.—(1) The Minister may make regulations in relation to the registration and identification of animals.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations made under this section may include all or any of the following matters:

(a) the registration of the birth, death or any other event relating to animals;

(b) the manner in which animals are to be identified, the time or times and the place or places at which they are to be identified, and the person or persons responsible for such identification;

(c) the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale, possession, control, use and disposal (including destruction or recycling) of ear-tags, microchips, identity cards or documents relating to the identification of animals, and of any other thing which might be used directly or indirectly for the purpose of, or in relation to, the identification of animals;

(d) without prejudice to paragraph (c), the tampering with, removal from animals or the re-application to animals of ear-tags, microchips or any other thing used for or in relation to the identification of animals;

(e) the identification of animals by electronic means (including the programming of any such means of identification);

(f) the information which is to be kept in relation to the identification of animals, the manner in which and the means by which it is to be kept, and the person or persons by whom it is to be kept and to whom it is to be given;

(g) the importation, movement, sale, possession, control, use, seizure and disposal of animals which are not identified, or which are incorrectly or falsely identified, or which are reasonably suspected of not being so identified or incorrectly or falsely identified;

(h) the possession of any instrument, implement or other thing which could be used for, or adapted for the use of, removing the identification of animals or for reusing the means of identification of animals;

(i) the tampering with, forgery or falsification of ear-tags, microchips, identity cards or other documents, or any other thing used for or in connection with the identification of animals;

(j) the use of ear-tags, microchips, identity cards or other documents, or any other thing used for or in connection with the identification of animals, to give a false or misleading or incorrect identification to animals.