S.I. No. 63 of 2006

Bovine Tuberculosis (Attestation of the State and General Provisions) (Amendment) Order, 2006

I, Mary Coughlan, Minister for Agriculture and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3, 13, 14, 19, 20, 27 and 48 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1966 (No. 6 of 1966) and for the purpose of giving effect to Council Directive 97/12₍₁₎ of 17 March 1977, Council Directive 98/46/EC₍₂₎ of 24 June 1998 and Council Directive 98/99/EC₍₃₎ of 14 December 1998 insofar as they relate to Bovine Tuberculosis hereby order as follows:-

1.   (1) This Order may be cited as the Bovine Tuberculosis (Attestation of the State and General Provisions) (Amendment) Order, 2006.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 6^th day of February 2006.

2.   In this Order -

-�the Principal Order-� means the Bovine Tuberculosis (Attestation of the State and General Provisions) Order, 1989 ( S.I. No. 308 of 1989 );

-�the 1999 Order-� means the Bovine Tuberculosis (Attestation of the State and General Provisions) Order, 1999 ( S.I. No. 277 of 1999 ) ;

-�the 1999 Regulations-� means the European Communities (Identification and Registration of the Bovine Animals) Regulations, 1999 ( S.I. No. 276 of 1999 );

-�keeper-� has the meaning assigned to it by the 1999 Regulations;

-�passport-� has the meaning assigned to it by the 1999 Regulations.

3.   Article 32 of the Principal Order is hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (2):

(2)  -�The Minister may issue, or cause to have issued, an identity card in respect of an animal for the purposes of the Order in the form specified in the Fifth, Seventh or Eighth Schedules to this Order-�.

4.   Article 39 of the Principal Order is hereby substituted by the following paragraph:

-�39. Any requirement of Regulations 10, 11, 12 or 13 of the 1999 Regulations in respect of a keeper of an animal, in relation to a passport, shall be a like requirement for a keeper in respect of an identity card issued in the form specified in the Eighth Schedule-�.

5.   The Second Schedule of the 1999 Order is hereby amended by the substitution for the Second Schedule of the following :

or,

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EIGHTH SCHEDULE

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These regulations provide for amendment to the design of cattle identity cards of older animals.