Brucellosis Control (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. No. 340 of 2015)

S T A T U T O R Y R U L E S O F N O R T H E R N I R E L A N D 2015 No. 340 ANIMALS The Brucellosis Control (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 Made - - - - 22nd September 2015 Coming into operation - 28th September 2015 The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development(a) in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 10(6), 19, and 60(1) of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(b), makes the following Order. Citation and commencement 1. This Order may be cited as the Brucellosis Control (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 and shall come into operation on 28th September 2015. Revocations 2.—(1) In the Brucellosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 2004(c)— (a) Part III; and (b) Article 20(2) are revoked. (2) The Brucellosis Control (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2014(d) is revoked. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 22nd September 2015 Geraldine Fee A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (a) The Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland was renamed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by Article 3(4) of the Departments Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283(N.I.1)) (b) S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22) as amended by S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Article 17, S.I. 1994/1891 (N.I. 6) Articles 20, 22 and 23, S.R. 1994 No.161, S.R. 2004 No. 362, S.R. 2006 No. 41, 2010 c.1 (N.I.) and 2011 c.16 (N.I.) (c) S.R. 2004 No. 361 as amended by S.R. 2005 No. 585, S.R. 2012 No. 315 and S.R. 2014 No. 266 (d) S.R. 2014 No. 266 EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Order) This Order further amends the Brucellosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 (“the 2004 Order”) by revoking the provisions in Part III of that Order prohibiting the movement of animals into or out of a herd, except directly to a slaughterhouse, unless the animals have been subjected to an official test prior to the date of movement. This Order in addition revokes the power of the Department in Article 20(2) of the 2004 Order to include in licences for draft or dispersal sales a provision requiring that animals in the sales shall have undergone an official test with negative results. The Order also revokes the Brucellosis Control (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2014 which had previously amended Part III and Article 20(2) of the 2004 Order. © Crown copyright 2015 Printed in the UK by The Stationery Office Limited under the authority and superintendence of Carol Tullo, Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office being the Government Printer for Northern Ireland and the Officer appointed to print Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly. £4.25 N6777 09/2015 456777T 19585 9 780337 998706 ISBN 978-0-337-99870-6