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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2005 No. 53

ANIMALS

Tuberculosis Control (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made

28th February 2005

Coming into operation

28th March 2005

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development(1), in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 5(1), 10(6), 18(7), 19, 44, 46(7A) and 60(1) of, and paragraph 4 of Part I and paragraph 4 of Part II of Schedule 2 to, the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(2) and of every power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Tuberculosis Control (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 28th March 2005.

Amendment of the Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

2.  The Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1999(3) shall be amended in accordance with Article 3.

Appeals

3.  Article 11A(1) shall be substituted by the following Article –

Appeals

11A(1) The Department or the owner of the animal may submit an appeal to a tribunal of persons, appointed by the Department for the purpose, if dissatisfied with the determination of the market value of any animal –

(a)in the case of an appeal by the Department, under Article 11(6)(b), or

(b)in the case of an appeal by the owner, under Article 11(6)(b), (7) or (11).

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 28th February 2005.

L.S.

Liam McKibben

A senior officer of the

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order).

This Order amends Article 11A of the Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 to correct an error therein.

(1)

The Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland was renamed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by Article 3(4) of the Departments Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1))

(2)

S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22) as amended by S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Article 17, S.I. 1994/1891 (N.I. 6) Articles 20 and 23 and S.R. 1999 No. 204