Johne’s Disease (Revocation) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1996 No. 400

ANIMALS

Johne’s Disease (Revocation) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made

29th August 1996

Coming into operation

10th October 1996

The Department of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 5(1), 10(6), 12, 14, 19(e) and (i) and 60(1) of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Johne’s Disease (Revocation) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 10th October 1996.

Revocations

2.  The Johne’s Disease Order (Northern Ireland) 1976(2) and the Johne’s Disease (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1989(3) are hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture on 29th August 1996.

L.S.

P. T. Toal

Assistant Secretary

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order revokes the Johne’s Disease Order (Northern Ireland) 1976 and the Johne’s Disease (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1989.

The effect of these revocations is that the Department of Agriculture no longer has certain powers to deal with cases or suspected cases of Johne’s disease or to take certain steps to prevent the spread of that disease.

(1)

S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22), as amended by S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Art. 17 and S.I. 1994/1891 (N.I. 6) Arts. 20 and 23

(2)

S.R. 1976 No. 25

(3)

S.R. 1989 No. 88