Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 No. 78

PART IV GENERAL

Amendment of the Sales, Markets and Lairs Order (Northern Ireland) 1975

27.—(1) The Sales, Markets and Lairs Order (Northern Ireland) 1975(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In Article 3 the definitions of the following expressions shall be omitted, that is to say –

(a) “assembly point operator”;

(b) “community instrument”;

(c) “EEC approved assembly point”; and

(d) “EEC approved market”.

(3) For Part III there shall be substituted –

“PART III ASSEMBLY CENTRES – INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE

Prohibition on sales of cattle, pigs, sheep or goats

16.— (1) A person shall not hold, or cause or permit to be held, a public sale of cattle, pigs, sheep or goats intended for intra-Community trade other than in an assembly centre.

(2) In this Article and in Article 17 “assembly centre” means an assembly centre approved in accordance with regulation 12 of the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005.

Collection of cattle, pigs, sheep or goats at assembly centres

17.   A person shall not collect, or cause or permit to be collected, cattle, pigs, sheep or goats intended for intra-Community trade other than in an assembly centre.”.

(1)

S.R. 1975 No. 294 as amended by S.R 1993 No. 371 and S.R. 2005 No. 78