The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Circuses and Avian Quarantine) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Regulation 13

SCHEDULE

regulation 17

“SCHEDULE 7 QUARANTINE OF CAPTIVE BIRDS

PART I Approvals

1.   The Department—

(a) may, if it is satisfied in all the circumstances that it is appropriate to do so, grant to a quarantine manager an approval in respect of a quarantine centre or a quarantine facility for which the quarantine manager has charge and which at least meets the minimum conditions set out in Annex IV to Commission Regulation (EC) No. 318/2007;

(b) shall comply with Chapter 3 of that Annex in relation to the suspension, revocation or reinstatement of such an approval.

2.   The Department shall give reasons in writing—

(a) for refusing an application for an approval;

(b) for attaching conditions to an approval.

3.   Notice of a revocation or suspension of an approval shall—

(a) take effect when it is served, unless otherwise stated in the notice;

(b) state—

(i) the reasons for the revocation or suspension, and

(ii) the time and date when it is to take effect;

(c) be served upon the quarantine manager—

(i) in person, or by leaving it at the quarantine centre or quarantine facility concerned, or

(ii) by post addressed to the quarantine manager at the quarantine centre or quarantine facility concerned, in which case it shall be deemed to be served at noon on the second day after posting it; and

(d) be copied to the importer, and so far as is practicable, if the importer is not the owner of the birds concerned, to the owner, of captive birds kept at the quarantine centre or quarantine facility at the date the revocation or suspension is to take effect.

4.   Where an approval is revoked or is to be revoked and the continuation of quarantine at the quarantine centre or quarantine facility concerned would in the opinion of a veterinary inspector cause a significant public or animal health risk, he may issue directions by notice as to the movement or disposal of birds held in quarantine at the time the notice of revocation is stated to take effect, and such notice shall be served and copied to any importer and owner concerned as if it were a notice to which paragraph 3(c) and (d) applied.

PART II APPROVAL FEE

5.   The Department shall determine the approval fee on the basis of the cost of inspection by a Departmental veterinary inspector and associated administrative costs.

6.   The approval fee shall be payable to the Department in respect of each quarantine centre or quarantine facility for which an application is made and shall be non-refundable.”