S.I. No. 165/2008 - Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Restriction on Bird-Shows Or Other Events) Order 2008

1. This Order may be cited as the

Diseases of Animals Act 1966

(Restriction on bird-shows or other events) Order 2008.

2. (1) A person shall not organise or hold a show, exhibition, market, sale or sporting event involving a bird that has been brought into the State either directly or across the land frontier of the State from an avian influenza control zone established in Great Britain since 4 June 2008.

(2) A person should not engage in pigeon racing that commences in England other than Devon or Cornwall.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

5 June 2008

SEAMUS HEALY.

Assistant Secretary General of the Department ofAgriculture, Fisheries and Food.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

This Order restricts shows sales and similar events involving birds originating from the avian influenza control zones in Great Britain.

S.I. No. 165 of 2008

DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT 1966 (RESTRICTION ON BIRD-SHOWS OR OTHER EVENTS) ORDER 2008

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

10

th June

, 2008.

I, BRENDAN SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 and 13 of the

Diseases of Animals Act 1966

(No. 6 of 1966) as amended by the

Diseases of Animals (Amendment) Act 2001

(No. 3 of 2001) (as adapted by the Agriculture and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2007 (

S.I. No. 705 of 2007

)), hereby order as follows—