The Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

Orders prohibiting import of poultry and eggs N.I.

30.—(1) For the purpose of [F1 in any manner] preventing contagious disease in poultry, the Department may, by order—

(a) prohibit or regulate the importation of poultry or eggs;

(b) authorise the destruction of imported eggs;

(c) provide for exemptions from any such prohibitions by means of the grant of licences[F2 subject to such conditions as maybe specified in the licences];

(d) apply and modify such of the provisions of Article 29 as appear to the Department to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of this Article.

(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), an order made under this Article authorising the destruction of imported eggs may provide that compensation shall not be payable where the eggs carried disease or infection at the time of landing or came from the same source as eggs found to carry disease or infection.

(3) An order under paragraph (1) may—

(a) apply, to poultry any of the provisions of Schedule 3 or otherwise that does not so apply;

(b) apply, with or without modifications, to imported eggs and their destruction any of the provisions of Part II of Schedule 3 relating to animals and their slaughter that does not so apply;

(c) modify any of the provisions of Schedule 3 which does not apply as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) and (b).

F1 1994 NI 6

F2 1984 NI 2