S.I. No. 746/2022 - Notification and Control of Diseases Affecting Terrestrial Animals (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (Amendment) Regulations 2021

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Notification and Control of Diseases affecting Terrestrial Animals (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (Amendment) Regulations 2021.

2. The Notification and Control of Diseases affecting Terrestrial Animals (No. 2) Regulations 2016 are amended, in Part B of the Schedule, by the insertion, between the mention of “Avian mycoplasmosis (caused by or involving Mycoplasma gallisepticum, Mycoplasma meleagridis or Mycoplasma synovia)” and the mention of “Bovine viral diarrhoea”, of “Bovine besnoitiosis”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

17 August, 2022.

CHARLIE MCCONALOGUE,

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

.)

These Regulations add Besnoitia to the list of animal diseases that are notifiable.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

7

th March,

2023.

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

section 36

of the

Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013

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