Spongiform Encephalopathies Rules, 2025

L.N. 38 of 2025

VETERINARY SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 437)

Prevention, Control and Eradication of certain Transmissible

Spongiform Encephalopathies Rules, 2025

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 5, 7 to 12, 15,

to 17 and 37 of the Veterinary Services Act, the Minister responsible

for veterinary services with the concurrence of the Minister

responsible for public health and the Minister responsible for customs,

has made the following rules:-

(1) The title of these rules is the Prevention, Control and Citation and

Eradication of certain Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies scope.

Rules, 2025.

(2) The scope of these rules is to implement the requirements

of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of

the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention,

control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform

encephalopathies.

(1)

In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires

Interpretation.

"Act" means the Veterinary Services Act;

''competent authority'' means the Department as defined in

the Act;

"Director" means the Director of Veterinary Services as

defined in the Act;

"Regulation (EC) No 999/2001" means Regulation (EC) No

999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22

May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and

eradication

of

certain

transmissible

spongiform

encephalopathies, as in force from time to time.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, words and phrases

used in these rules which are not defined herein, shall have the same

meaning as assigned to them in Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 and in

the Act.

Without prejudice to any other power or responsibility in Part IX of the

accordance with the law, and to its application in any other manner in Act.

accordance with the law, Part IX of the Act shall also apply mutatis

mutandis to these rules.

(1) Without prejudice to rule 3, any person who breaches

any provisions of these rules or any obligation in accordance with

these rules, or breaches a provision of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001,

or hinders any person responsible for their implementation, shall on

conviction be liable, to the punishments established in the Act.

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-rule (1), the

Court may also order any person guilty of an offence, to pay for the

expenses incurred by the competent authority and the Director as a

result of the said offence, as well as the revocation of any permit or

certification issued under these rules and the confiscation, retention or

destruction or other means of disposal of the animals involved.

The Prevention, Control and Eradication of Certain

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations are hereby

being repealed without prejudice to anything done or omitted to be

done thereunder.

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