AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 2 Further provisions as to the destruction of vermin.

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AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 2

Further provisions as to the destruction of vermin.

2.(1) The Ministry may, after considering any recommendations made to it on
behalf of a county committee of agriculture or of any two or more than two of
such committees acting jointly, make schemes for the destruction of vermin in,
or causing damage in, any area.

(2) A scheme under this section shall be subject to negative resolution.

(3) A scheme under this section may make provision for

(a)securing or assisting the destruction of, or the reduction in the numbers
of, such vermin in such lawful manner as may be specified in the scheme,
including the destruction, or rendering of assistance in destroying or
reducing, breeding places or cover for vermin or excluding vermin therefrom,
or preventing vermin from one place spreading to or doing damage in another
place;

(b)the payment, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, of such bounties
upon such dead vermin in such manner and upon such evidence as may be
specified by the scheme;

(c)the carrying out by such officers, servants or agents of the Ministry
(including the carrying out by county committees of agriculture as such
agents) of such functions under the scheme as may be specified by the scheme;
and

(d)such incidental or supplemental matters as the Ministry may think proper.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1972 c.15 (NI) s.1(2)

(5) For the purposes of any scheme under this section the Ministry may employ
persons to act as trappers or otherwise for the killing or disposing of
vermin.

Subs.(6) rep. by SLR 1976

(7) In this section "vermin" includes foxes and any species of quadruped or
bird which appears to the Ministry to cause substantial damage to livestock,
crops or agricultural land and to which a scheme made by the Ministry under
this section is declared by the scheme to apply.

S.3 rep. by SLR 1976. S.4 rep. by SLR 1973

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AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 2