S.I. No. 20/1969:

BRUCELLOSIS IN CATTLE (CLEARANCE AREA) (GENERAL PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1969.

BRUCELLOSIS IN CATTLE (CLEARANCE AREA) (GENERAL PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1969.

I, NEIL T. BLANEY, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, it appearing to me to be necessary for the purpose of the progressive eradication of brucellosis in cattle, do hereby, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 , 20 , 27 and 58 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1966 (No. 6 of 1966), order as follows :

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Brucellosis in Cattle (Clearance Area) (General Provisions) (Amendment) Order, 1969.

(2) The Brucellosis in Cattle (Clearance Area) General Provisions Orders, 1966 and 1968, the Brucellosis in Cattle (Clearance Area) (General Provisions) (Amendment) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 250 of 1966 ), and this Order may be cited together as the Brucellosis in Cattle (Clearance Area) (General Provisions) Orders, 1966 to 1969.

(3) This Order shall come into operation on the 17th day of February, 1969.

2. The Brucellosis in Cattle (Clearance Area) (General Provisions) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 120 of 1966 ), shall be amended as follows :

(a) in paragraph (b) of article 5 (1) " or animals deemed to be reactors under the Bovine Tuberculosis (Attestation of the State) Order, 1965 ( S.I. No. 211 of 1965 ) " is hereby revoked and " he shall also, if required by the person taking the sample, surrender to him all the identity cards (including any brucellosis certified cards) issued by the Minister in respect of the eligible animals in the herd " is hereby inserted at the end of the paragraph;

(b) in article 7 (1) " there is a reactor in a herd in the area," is hereby substituted for ", as a result of any test of any animal in the area, a reactor is disclosed ";

(c) article 8 is hereby amended by the addition of :

" (2) (a) Where the Minister intends to institute or has instituted a prosecution against an applicant for compensation mentioned in paragraph (1) for an offence under the act or any Order under the act in relation to an animal which is the subject of the application, consideration of the application by the Minister in respect of such animal may be postponed pending the institution or determination of the prosecution.

(b) Where an applicant has failed to take reasonable care to protect against brucellosis an animal which is the subject of the application, the Minister or arbitrator may in assessing the compensation make a deduction estimated by him to be the amount of any loss to the Exchequer or to the applicant himself arising by reason of such failure.";

(d) article 13 is hereby amended by the addition of the following :

" A person shall not move out of a herd in the area in which a reactor has been disclosed unpasteurised milk or any unpasteurised dairy product for feeding in its unpasteurised state to bovine or other animals before he has been informed by an inspector of the Minister that the herd is free from brucellosis."; and

(e) article 15 is hereby amended by the insertion after " area " of ", or that an animal has aborted in the area,".

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 10th day of February, 1969.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order by amending the Brucellosis in Cattle (Clearance Area) (General Provisions) Order, 1966, provides in relation to the Clearance Area (1) for the surrender in certain circumstances of cattle identity cards issued by the Minister (2) for the postponement or reduction of payment of compensation for reactor animals in certain circumstances (3) for controls on the movement of unpasteurised dairy products from infected herds (4) for the notification to the Minister by a veterinary surgeon of cases of abortion in cattle and (5) for other controls necessary to avoid the spread of brucellosis in cattle.