Regulation 5 Amendment of the Cattle Passport Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

The Cattle Passport Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999^f1 shall be amended as provided in this regulation.

In Regulation 2(2) for the definition of “the Council Regulation” there shall be substituted the following definition –

• ““the Council Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000 establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No. 820/97;”.

Regulation 13 shall be renumbered regulation 13 (1) and after that paragraph there shall be added the following paragraph –

“(2)

For the purposes of Article 18(6) of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 any offence against these Regulations shall be deemed to be an offence against that Order.”.