S.I. No. 109/2014 - Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 (Application to Tuberculosis in Non-Ruminant Animals) Order 2014.

1. This Order may be cited as the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 (Application to Tuberculosis in Non-Ruminant Animals) Order 2014 and come into operation on 6 March 2014.

2. The provisions of the

Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013

apply to tuberculosis in animals other than ruminants.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

4 March 2014.

SIMON COVENEY,

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

The effect of this Order is to make tuberculosis in non-ruminant animals a disease to which the

Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013

applies; the Act already applies to tuberculosis in ruminants.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

7

th March

, 2014.

I, SIMON COVENEY, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 7

of the

Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013

(No. 15 of 2013), hereby make the following order