{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-39.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/1115",
  "legislation_title": "The Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/39",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Provision of wharves, etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Department may by order empower a district council to provide, erect, and fit up wharves, stations, lairs, sheds, and other places for the landing, reception, keeping, sale, slaughter or disposal of imported or other animals, carcases, fodder, litter, dung and other things.\n(2) An order made under paragraph (1) may, without prejudice to the generality of that paragraph, make provisions for—\n(a) the making by the district council of bye-laws for the regulation and control of any wharf or other place provided under the order and prescribing charges or tolls approved by the Department after consultation with the Department of Finance for the use of any such wharf or place;\n(b) in default of such bye-laws, the prescribing of such charges or tolls by an order of the Department made after consultation with the Department of Finance;\n(c) the application, with or without such modification as may be specified in the order, of the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act 1847 to or in relation to any such wharf or place;\n(d) the application by the district council of any money so received by it;\n(e) the making by the district council of such periodical returns of its receipts and expenditure in respect of any such wharf or place as may be prescribed by the order.\n(3) Where a district council—\n(a) is unable or unwilling to perform such functions as are referred to in paragraph (1): or\n(b) satisfies the Department that it is impracticable or inexpedient that such functions should in its area be performed by the district council;\nthe Department may by order empower some other authority or person to perform those functions, and paragraph (2) shall have effect accordingly.\n(4) An order under paragraph (3) may make such modifications in Article 41 as appear to the Department to be necessary to give effect to the order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1847 c. 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1115/article/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:51:34.555607+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}