Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022

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Number 4 of 2022


Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement

2. Definition

PART 2

Amendment of Act of 2013

3. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 2013

4. Amendment of section 39 of Act of 2013

5. Amendment of section 52 of Act of 2013

6. Repeal of Part 12 of Act of 2013

7. Prohibition on Fur or Skin Farming

8. Amendment of Schedule 3 to Act of 2013

PART 3

Amendment of Forestry Act 2014

9. Amendment of Forestry Act 2014

PART 4

Miscellaneous

10. Repeal


Acts Referred to

Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 (No. 15)

Forestry Act 2014 (No. 31)

Milk (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979 (No. 24)

Musk Rats Act 1933 (No. 16)

Redundancy Payments Act 1967 (No. 21)

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Number 4 of 2022


ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE AND FORESTRY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2022


An Act to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to provide for the prohibition of the breeding, rearing or keeping of specified animals solely or primarily for the value of, or the manufacture of products from, their fur or skin; to provide for a system of compensation to persons who before the coming into operation of the prohibition were engaged in the fur farming of mink pursuant to a licence under the Musk Rats Act 1933 ; to confer on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the power to make regulations for the purpose of licensing livestock marts; to repeal certain provisions of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 relating to the licensing of animal marts; to amend the Forestry Act 2014 to make provision for schemes to facilitate the planting of native tree areas; to repeal the Milk (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979 ; and to provide for related matters.

[4th April, 2022]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: