The Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

Regulation of ports, aerodromes, landing places and imported animals, poultry, etc. N.I.

29.—(1) F1 . . . the Department may make such orders as it thinks fit, generally for the[F1 better] execution of this Order in relation to, or for the purpose of, in any manner preventing the introduction or spreading of disease by—

(a) imported animals and carcases; and

(b) other imported things, whether animate or inanimate, by or by means of which it appears to the Department that any disease might be carried or transmitted; and

(c) persons, animals, poultry and other things, whether animate or inanimate, which have been or may have been in contact with such imported animals, carcases or other things.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), an order made under that paragraph may—

(a) prescribe—

(i) the ports, aerodromes and landing places at which alone imported animals may be landed;

(ii) the aerodromes which alone may be used by aircraft carrying imported animals;

(b) define the limits of landing places for the purposes of this Order;

(c) permit the detention on board any vessel, hovercraft, aircraft or vehicle of any other description of any consignment the landing of which would contravene an order of the Department;

(d) permit the export of any such consignment or the export, treatment or destruction of any other consignment which has been landed in contravention of an order of the Department;

(e) prohibit or regulate the movement of animals into, within, or out of a landing place and provide for exemptions from any such prohibition by means of the grant of licences[F2 subject to such conditions as maybe specified in the licences];

(f) prescribe and regulate the inspection and examination and the mode, time and conditions of slaughter, of animals in a landing place;

(g) prescribe and regulate the disposal of animals not being imported animals, and being in a landing place;

(h) regulate the removal of carcases or other things, whether animate or inanimate, into, within, or out of a landing place, and the disposal or these things, when likely to introduce or spread disease;

(i) prescribe and regulate the cleansing and disinfection of a landing place;

(j) prescribe and regulate the disinfection or destruction of things being in, or removed out of, [F3 a port, aerodrome or landing place];

(k) regulate the movement of persons into, within, or out of a landing place;

(l) prescribe and regulate the disinfection of the clothes of persons employed or being in a landing place, and the use of precautions against the introduction or spreading by them of disease;

(m) prescribe and regulate the [F4 seizure, detention and disposal] of any imported animal, carcase or other things, whether animate or inanimate F5 . . . ;

(n) require imported animals, whether as a condition of landing or otherwise, to be marked by tagging or in any other manner;

(o) provide for the application to imported animals of any test for disease or of any treatment for disease.

F1 1994 NI 6

F2 1984 NI 2

F3 Words in art. 29(2)(j) substituted (12.3.2010) by Diseases of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 1), ss. 18(2)(a), 22(1); S.R. 2010/70, art. 2

F4 Words in art. 29(2)(m) substituted (12.3.2010) by Diseases of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 1), ss. 18(2)(b)(i), 22(1); S.R. 2010/70, art. 2

F5 Words in art. 29(2)(m) repealed (12.3.2010) by Diseases of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 1), ss. 18(2)(b)(ii), 21(2), 22(1), Sch. 3; S.R. 2010/70, art. 2