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Animal Health Act 1981
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92 General application to Scotland.E+W+S
(1)The provisions of this section have effect for the purposes of the application of this Act to Scotland.
(2)An offence against this Act may be prosecuted in the district court, and, when so prosecuted, the provisions in relation to sentences contained in [F1section 7(6) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995] shall apply to such a prosecution as they apply to prosecutions of common law offences.
(3)In the event of refusal or delay on the part of any person in complying with the order of a local authority, the local authority may give information of the refusal or delay to the procurator-fiscal of the district, who may apply to the sheriff for a warrant to carry such order into effect, and such warrant may be executed by the officers of the court in common form.
(4)Notwithstanding anything in any other Act, and except in relation to section 4 above, such part not exceeding one half of every fine recovered under this Act as the court before which it is recovered thinks fit shall be paid to the person who proceeds for it.
(5)Nothing in subsections (3) and (4) above applies to proceedings under the customs and excise Acts.
(6)Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of section 17 of the M1Diseases of Animals Act 1935, Part I of the M2Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1919 shall be deemed always to have extended to Scotland.
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F1Words in s. 92(2) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 40, ss. 5, 7(2), Sch. 4 para. 35
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93 Communications to and from Northern Ireland.U.K.
In order to secure uniformity of action—
(a)every order of the Minister shall with all practicable speed be communicated to the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland; and
(b)every order made by that Department under the enactments in Northern Ireland relating to diseases of animals shall with all practicable speed be communicated to the Minister.
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