An Act to make provision for prohibiting or controlling the importation into and the keeping within Northern Ireland of destructive non-indigenous animals, for exterminating any such animals which may be at large, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[28th March 1933]
WHEREAS by an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and entitled “the Destructive Imported Animals Act, 1932 M1,” provision has been made for prohibiting or controlling the importation into and the keeping within Great Britain of destructive non-indigenous animals, for exterminating any such animals which may be at large and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid:
And whereas it is enacted by sub-section (2) of section twelve of the said Act that the said Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland, and that for the purposes of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 M2, the enactment of legislation for purposes similar to the purposes of the said first-mentioned Act shall not be deemed to be beyond the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland by reason only of the restrictions on those powers contained in section four of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920: