Contents
Article 1Citation and commencement#
This Order may be cited as the Sales, Markets and Lairs (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 27th December 2004.
Article 2Amendment of the Sales, Markets and Lairs Order (Northern Ireland) 1975#
The Sales, Markets and Lairs Order (Northern Ireland) 1975 shall be amended as provided in Articles 3 and 4.
Article 3Notice of approval of markets#
For paragraphs (2) and (3) of Article 13 there shall be substituted the following paragraphs –“2 A notice of approval issued to any person under paragraph (1) may be –a issued subject to conditions; andb amended, suspended or revoked by further notice in writing issued to the same person in accordance with the following paragraph.3 A notice of approval under paragraph (1) may be –a suspended or revoked if the Department is of the reasonable opinion that the provisions of this Order are not being complied with in relation to the market to which the notice relates; andb revoked if the person to whom the notice was issued is convicted of a relevant offence in relation to a bovine animal or swine offered or exposed for sale at the market to which the notice relates.4 In paragraph (3) “relevant offence” means –a in relation to a bovine animal, under the Cattle Identification (Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998, the Cattle Identification (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 or the Cattle Identification (Notification of Births, Deaths and Movements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999; orb in relation to a swine, under the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 for contravention of the Animals (Records) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997, in so far as it relates to same, or Article 12 of the Aujeszky’s Disease Order (Northern Ireland) 1994.”
Article 4General conditions#
For paragraph (3) of Article 15 there shall be substituted the following paragraph –“3 A person to whom a notice of approval has been issued under Article 13(1) shall not admit to the market specified in the notice –a any bovine animal,i unless accompanied by a notification document in accordance with regulation 7(4) of the Cattle Identification (Notification of Births, Deaths and Movements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999; andii the holder has examined any such animal and notification document to ensure that the document has been correctly completed and the details entered thereon correspond to the animal to which they refer; orb any swine, unless the holder has examined the animal and any document required as a condition of a licence issued by the Department under Article 5(1)(b) of the Aujeszky’s Disease Order (Northern Ireland) 1994 to ensure that the document has been correctly completed and the details entered thereon correspond to the animal to which they refer.”
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