DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 16 Provision of water and food at railway stations.

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DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 16

Provision of water and food at railway stations.

16.(1) Every person carrying on a railway undertaking (in this section
referred to as "the authority") shall make a provision, to the satisfaction of
the Ministry, of water and food or either of them at such railway stations as
the Ministry by general or specific description directs, for animals carried
or about to be or having been carried on the railway of the authority.

(2) The water and food so provided, or either of them, shall be supplied by
the authority to any such animals on the request of the consignor or of any
person in charge thereof.

(3) As regards water, if as respects any animal such a request is not made, so
that the animal remains without a supply of water for twenty-four consecutive
hours, the consignor and the person in charge of the animal shall each be
guilty of an offence against this Act; and it shall lie on the person charged
to prove such a request and the time within which the animal had a supply of
water:

Provided that the Ministry may, if it thinks fit, by order prescribe, either
generally or in respect of any particular kind of animals, any other period
not less than twelve hours instead of the period of twenty-four hours
aforesaid.

(4) The authority supplying water or food under this section may make in
respect thereof such reasonable charges, if any, as the Ministry by order
approves, in addition to such charges as they are for the time being
authorised to make in respect of the carriage of animals. The amount of those
additional charges accrued due in respect of any animal shall be a debt from
the consignor and from the consignee thereof to the authority and shall be
recoverable by the authority from either of them, with costs, by proceedings
in any court of competent jurisdiction.

The authority shall have a lien for the amount thereof on the animal in
respect whereof the same accrued due, and on any other animal at any time
consigned by or to the same consignor or consignee to be carried by
the authority.

(5) This section shall have effect in relation to poultry as it has effect in
relation to animals and its provisions shall be construed accordingly.

Carriage of animals and poultry by sea or air.

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