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Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in
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“Iris Oifigiúil” of 26th May, 2020.
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I, MICHAEL CREED, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections
36
of the
Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013
(
S.I. No. 15 of 2013
), hereby make the following Regulations:
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1. These Regulations may be cited as the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into operation on 22 May 2020.
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2. The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Regulations 2017 are amended –
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(a) by the substitution, for Regulation 3 (2) of -
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“(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to –
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(a) a bovine from which a sample was taken under the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Order 2012 or the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Regulations 2014, or
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(b) a cow from whose calf a sample was taken and tested for the presence of bovine viral diarrhoea virus before the commencement of the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Amendment) Regulations 2020.”,
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(b) in Regulation 9 (1) by deleting “born after 1 January 2013,”,
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(c) in Regulation 9 (2) by deleting “born on or after 1 January 2013,”, and
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(d) In Regulation 10 (1) by deleting “a bovine born on or after 1 January 2013, or,”.
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GIVEN under my Official Seal,
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21 May, 2020.
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MICHAEL CREED,
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Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
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(This note is not part of the instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)
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The effect of these Regulations is to provide for the compulsory testing of all bovines born before 1 January 2013 for the presence of the bovine viral diarrhoea virus, with the exception of those female bovines for which a valid BVD virus test result is recorded for one or more offspring.
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