Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order.)
This Order provides for:
the treatment with an approved warble fly preparation of bovine animals, not for immediate slaughter, imported from a country or region not free from warble fly (Article 3);
the keeping in isolation of certain bovine animals imported from Canada in pursuance of Commission Decision 83/494/EEC in isolation (Article 4 and Schedule 1);
controls on bovine animals imported for meat production from certain specified third countries in pursuance of a number of European Economic Community decisions (Article 5 and Schedule 2);
the slaughter, within 72 hours of arrival in Northern Ireland from certain specified third countries, of bovine animals imported for slaughter in pursuance of a number of European Economic Community decisions (Article 6 and Schedule 2);
action by the Department where any person fails to comply with a duty placed on him by this Order (Article 7);
the revocation of Article 5 of the Warble Fly Order (Northern Ireland) 1976 (Article 8).
Any person who without lawful authority or excuse, proof of which shall lie on him, contravenes any provision of the Order shall be guilty of an offence against the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981. The penalty, on summary conviction, is a fine at level 5 on the standard scale (currently £2,000) or in the case of an offence committed with respect to more than 5 animals, a fine at level 3 on the standard scale (currently £400) for each animal.