Regulation 14 Special inspections of closed zoosI1
Northern Ireland
The Department may at any time make arrangements for a special inspection of a zoo, or a section of a zoo, to which regulation 21 applies –
if it considers it appropriate to do so having regard to its function under regulation 21(3) of supervising the implementation of a plan prepared under regulation 21(1);
if it considers it appropriate to do so having regard to its function under regulation 21(5) of making a direction as to the future care or disposal of the animals at the zoo; or
if it considers it appropriate to do so in order to determine whether to exercise its functions under regulation 21(6) or (7) for making arrangements for the future care or disposal of the animals at the zoo.
Paragraph (10)(c) of regulation 12 applies to an inspection under this regulation as it applies to an inspection under regulation 12.
The inspector may require the production of all records of the zoo’s collection kept by the operator of the zoo for the purposes concerned with the inspection carried out under this regulation, and the operator shall produce the records.
On completion of their inspection the inspector shall send his report to the Department, and except where the operator of the zoo cannot, after reasonable enquiries have been made, be found, the Department shall send a copy to the operator forthwith and give him an opportunity to comment on it.
Annotations
Commencement
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Reg. 14 in operation at 31.3.2003, see reg. 1