S.I. No. 16/1972 - Rabies (Importation, Landing and Movement of Animals) Order, 1972.

1. The Order Carnivora, which Order includes the animals commonly called jackals, foxes, wolves, bears, raccoons, coatis, pandas, otters, weasels, martens, polecats, badgers, skunks, mink, ratels, genets, civets, linsangs, mongooses, hyaenas, ocelots, pumas, cheetahs, lions, tigers and leopards.

2. The Order Chiroptera, which Order includes the animals commonly called bats and flying foxes.

3. The Order Dermoptera, which Order includes the animals commonly called flying lemurs.

4. The Order Edentata, which Order includes the animals commonly called anteaters, sloths and armadillos.

5. The Order Hyracoidea, which Order includes the animals commonly called hyraxes.

6. The Order Insectivora, which Order includes the animals commonly called solenodons, tenrecs, otter shrews, golden moles, hedgehogs, elephant shrews, shrews, moles and desmans.

7. The Order Lagomorpha, which Order includes the animals commonly called pikas, rabbits and hares.

8. The Order Marsupialia, which Order includes the animals commonly called opossums, marsupial mice, dasyures, marsupial moles, marsupial anteaters, bandicoots, rat opossums, cuscusses, phalangers, koalas, wombats, wallabies and kangaroos.

9. The Order Primates, which Order includes the animals commonly called tree-shrews, lemurs, indrises, sifakas, aye-ayes, lorises, bushbabies, tarsiers, titis, uakaris, sakis, howlers, capuchins, squirrel monkeys, marmosets, tamarins, macaques, mangabeys, baboons, langurs, gibbons and great apes.

10. The Order Rodentia, which Order includes the animals commonly called gophers, squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, scaly-tailed squirrels, pocket mice, kangaroo rats, beavers, mountain beavers, springhaas, mice, rats, hamsters, lemmings, voles, gerbils, water rats, dormice, jumping mice, jerboas, porcupines, cavies, capybara, chinchillas, spiny rats and gundis.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 24th day of January, 1972.

JAMES GIBBONS,

Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

For purposes connected with the prevention of the introduction of rabies this Order extends the application of certain sections of the

Diseases of Animals Act, 1966

to all animals of the ten Orders of mammals named in the Schedule to the Order and prohibits, save under licence of the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, the importation or landing of such animals, except domestic dogs and cats, from places other than Northern Ireland.

The Order revokes and replaces the Rodents and Insectivora (Restriction on Importation) Order, 1954 and the Rabies (Importation and Landing of Animals) Order, 1969.

The Order also extends the definition of " animals " in the Rabies Order, 1933, so as to include all the animals of the Orders of mammals specified in the Schedule to the Order.

S.I. No. 16 of 1972.

RABIES (IMPORTATION, LANDING AND MOVEMENT OF ANIMALS) ORDER, 1972.

I, JAMES GIBBONS, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

sections 3

,

10

,

11

and

30

of the

Diseases of Animals Act, 1966

(No. 6 of 1966), for the prevention of the spreading of rabies, hereby order as follows:—