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The Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

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Prevention or checking of diseaseN.I.

5.—(1) F1. . . the Department may by order—

(a)prescribe modes of cleansing and disinfection;

(b)prescribe and regulate the marking of animals or poultry[F2 and regulate the sale, supply, distribution, use and destruction of any article intended for use in such marking];

(c)prescribe and regulate the seizure, detention and disposal of a diseased or suspected animal or bird exposed, carried, kept or otherwise dealt with in contravention of an order of the Department;

(d)prescribe and regulate the liability of the owner, consignor or consignee of an animal or bird such as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) to the expenses connected with the seizure, detention and disposal;

(e)prescribe and regulate the destruction, burial, disposal or treatment of carcases of animals or poultry dying while diseased or suspected;

(f)prohibit or regulate the digging up of carcases which have been buried;

(g)prescribe and regulate the disinfection of the clothes of persons employed about, or coming in contact with, or likely to have been in contact with, diseased or suspected animals or poultry and the use of precautions against the spreading of disease by such persons;

(h)prohibit or regulate the [F3sale, supply or use] of any kind of fodder or litter by which disease might be spread;

(i)prescribe and regulate the use and distribution of any thing, whether animate or inanimate, by or by means of which it appears to the Department that any disease might be carried or transmitted;

(j)prohibit or regulate the collection, holding or processing of carcases or of animal or poultry products or any thing, whether animate or inanimate, which has been in contact with such carcases or products;

(k)prescribe and regulate the payment and recovery of expenses in respect of animals or poultry;

[F4(kk)prescribe and regulate the circumstances in which expenses incurred by the Department may be recovered from any person who fails to comply with any provision of this Order or an order of the Department;]

(l)prescribe, regulate and secure the periodical treatment of all sheep by effective dipping or by the use of some other remedy for sheep scab;

(m)provide for exemptions from any such prohibitions by means of the grant of licences[F2 subject to such conditions as may be specified in the licences].

(2) The Department may provide and maintain sheep dipping facilities and afford to the public, upon such terms and conditions (including conditions as to payment) as the Department may think proper, the use of those facilities and of any appliances and materials which are necessary to make that use effective, so, however, that nothing shall be done under this paragraph so as to affect injuriously the water in any stream, reservoir, aqueduct, well, pond or place constructed or used for the supply of water for any domestic purpose.

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