Paragraph 3 Examination and official testsI1

Northern Ireland Not yet in force

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. para. 1 words inserted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(2)(a)
Sch. para. 1 words substituted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(2)(b)
Sch. para. 1 words substituted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(2)(c)
Sch. para. 1A inserted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(3)
Sch. para. 1 coming into force by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 1999 art. 1
Sch. para. 2 coming into force by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 1999 art. 1
Sch. para. 3 coming into force by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 1999 art. 1
Sch. para. 4 coming into force by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 1999 art. 1
Sch. para. 5 coming into force by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 1999 art. 1
Sch. para. 6 coming into force by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 1999 art. 1
Sch. para. 7 coming into force by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 1999 art. 1
Sch. para. 2 heading words substituted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(4)(a)
Sch. para. 2(1) words inserted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(4)(b)
Sch. para. 2 words inserted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(4)(c)
Sch. para. 2(1)(c) words inserted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(4)(d)
Sch. para. 3(2) words substituted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(5)(a)
Sch. para. 3(2)(a) words substituted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(5)(b)
Sch. para. 3(2)(b)-(d) words substituted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(5)(c)
Sch. para. 5 substituted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(6)
Sch. para. 6 words inserted by Tuberculosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme 2015 art. 2(7)

(1)

For the purpose of carrying out his functions under paragraph 2, an authorised officer may at any time, and on production if so required of his authority, enter onto any land, building, shed, place or pen where an animal or carcase is kept or suspected on reasonable grounds to be kept.

(2)

The keeper of any animal or carcase and the owner or occupier of, and any person employed on or in, any land, building, shed, pen or place where it is kept shall, upon request by an authorised officer—

(a)

provide facilities that in the opinion of a veterinary inspector are adequate to ensure both the safety of any person involved in the official testing of any animals and that of the animals being so tested;

(b)

present such animals or carcases in his charge as the officer may require;

(c)

in the case of an animal, collect, pen, restrain or otherwise secure it in such manner as the officer may require so as to enable him to examine or officially test it; and

(d)

make clean water available to the officer for the cleansing and disinfection of any clothing and equipment used for the purposes of or in connection with any official test.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. para. 3 in operation at 26.7.1999, see art. 1