S.I. No. 107/1976 - Sheep Dipping Order, 1965 (Amendment) Order, 1976.

1. 7.—(2) No dipping of any sheep shall be deemed to be dipping within the meaning of this Order unless the dipping is in accordance with the foregoing paragraph.

2. 13. Where sheep (other than sheep exempted for the time being by an exemption certificate from dipping) in the possession or charge of any person have not been dipped in accordance with this Order, nor are deemed to have been so dipped, an inspector may, without prejudice to any proceedings in respect of the offence committed by such person in failing to have the sheep so dipped, serve on the person, and on any person in possession or in charge of any sheep in contact with the first-mentioned sheep, a notice in Form E in the Schedule hereto, requiring all or any of such hereinbefore-mentioned sheep to be dipped in the manner specified in the notice and upon the service of the notice it shall be unlawful for any person to move any of the sheep to which the notice relates from any land on which the sheep are at the date of the notice until the notice has been complied with.

3. 16.—(1) If in the opinion of a local authority it is desirable that any sheep in the functional area of the authority should be dipped at any particular time and place, the authority may serve on the person in possession or in charge of the sheep a requisition (in this Order referred to as a dipping requisition) requiring the person to dip the sheep at the time and place, and in the manner specified in such requisition and to the satisfaction of an inspector.

4. 19.—(1) Every local authority shall temporarily appoint as many additional inspectors as may be necessary to enable proper supervision to be maintained on behalf of the authority with a view to securing the carrying out in their functional area of the provisions of this Order.

5. The following provisions of the Principal Order are hereby revoked

(

a

) the definition of "second dipping period" in Article 3;

(

b

) in paragraph (2) of Article 7, all words from "and the sheep so dipped", to the end of the paragraph;

(

c

) paragraphs (2) to (5) of Article 8;

(

d

) in Article 16 (1), the words "in any first or second dipping period";

(

e

) in Article 19 (1), the words "for service during each dipping period in each year";

(

f

) Form A in the Schedule thereto; and

(

g

) in Form D in the said Schedule the words "first/second".

6. Articles 7 (2), 13, 16 (1) and 19 (1) of the Principal Order, as amended by this Order, are set out in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively, of the Table to this Article.

TABLE.

7. The Sheep Dipping Order, 1965 (Amendment) Order, 1966 (

S.I. No. 98 of 1966

) is hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 13th day of May, 1976.

MARK CLINTON,

Minister for Agriculture and

Fisheries.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to amend the Sheep Dipping Order, 1965 so as to provide for

(

a

) a single compulsory annual dipping of sheep to be carried out during the period from 1st October to the following 31st January, instead of two compulsory annual dippings,

(

b

) removal of the requirement that sheep must have been previously clipped in the year in which the dipping takes place,

(

c

) the making of Regulations by a local authority, if it so decides, fixing a shorter period within the prescribed dates as the dipping period for sheep within the authority's functional area, and

(

d

) certain changes in the requirements for the certification of dipping.

S.I. No. 107 of 1976.

SHEEP DIPPING ORDER, 1965 (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1976.

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

sections 3

,

10

,

13

,

35

and

38

of the

Diseases of Animals Act, 1966

(No. 6 of 1966), hereby order as follows