Statutory Rule 1999 No. 324

Cattle Passport Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

1999 No. 324
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
ANIMALS
Cattle Passport Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

	Made	9th July 1999
	Coming into operation	3rd September 1999

ARRANGEMENT OF PROVISIONS

PART I
Introduction

1.	Citation and commencement

2.	Interpretation and application

PART II
Cattle Passports

3.	Application for a passport for cattle intended for export

4.	Production on demand

5.	Consignment of animals out of Northern Ireland

6.	Completion of cattle passports when cattle are consigned out of Northern Ireland

7.	Movement of cattle through Northern Ireland

8.	Cattle from other member States, Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands

9.	Lost cattle passports

10.	Animal deaths or lost or stolen animals

11.	Alterations

PART III
General

12.	Amendment of Cattle Identification (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

13.

Penalties

The Department of Agriculture, being a Department designated[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

PART I
Introduction
Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Cattle Passport Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 3rd September 1999.

Interpretation and application
     2. - (1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[3] shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

    (2) In these Regulations -

"animal" means bovine animals including the species Bison bison and Bubalus bubalis;

"holding" means any establishment, construction or, in the case of an open-air farm, any place in Northern Ireland in which cattle are held, kept or handled;

"inspector" means a person appointed to be an inspector for the purposes of these Regulations by the Department;

"keeper" means any person responsible for animals, whether on a permanent or on a temporary basis, including during transportation or at a market;

"member State" means any member State of the European Communities, other than the United Kingdom; and

(3) In these Regulations a reference to "another part of the European Community" shall be construed as a reference to a place in Great Britain, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or to a place in any member State.

(4) These Regulations shall apply in relation to any animal intended for intra-Community trade after the date of their coming into operation.