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DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 2

2.(A( The Ministry, without prejudice to any power conferred on it by or under
any other enactment, may with the approval of the Ministry of Finance expend
such sums as the Ministry thinks fit with the object of eradicating or so far
as practicable preventing diseases of animals and poultry in Northern Ireland.

(2) Without prejudice to sub-section (1), the Ministry may in accordance with
a scheme made by it with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, and subject
to negative resolution, pay to the owner of any herd of cattle in Northern
Ireland such sums as the Ministry thinks fit to be expended with the object of
securing so far as practicable that the herd will be free from tuberculosis.

(3) Without prejudice to sub-section (1), the Ministry, with the object of
promoting the breeding and distribution of stocks of poultry free from
disease, may with the approval of the Ministry of Finance make arrangements
whereby persons carrying on, at any premises in Northern Ireland recognised by
the Ministry for the purposes of this sub-section, the business of breeding
and distributing stocks of poultry or of producing and distributing hatching
eggs may be afforded, free of charge, facilities for having poultry, whether
alive or dead, inspected, tested and examined with the object of determining
whether the birds are free from disease, or from what cause they have died.

(4) For the purpose of obtaining information required for the purposes of this
section, the Ministry may authorise any veterinary inspector or other officer
of the Ministry to inspect animals or poultry.

Any person so authorised may, for the purpose of any inspection to be carried
out by him, at all reasonable times, upon production of his authority on
demand, enter on any land or premises and apply such tests and take such
samples as he considers necessary.

(5) In this section the expression "disease" is not restricted by its
definition in section fifty-two and the First Schedule.

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