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DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 5

Power of Ministry to make orders for prevention or checking of disease.

5. The Ministry may make such orders as it thinks fit, subject and according
to the provisions of this Act, for all or any of the following purposes:

(a)for prescribing modes of cleansing and disinfection;

(b)for prescribing and regulating the marking of animals;

(c)for prescribing and regulating the seizure, detention and disposal of a
diseased or suspected animal exposed, carried, kept or otherwise dealt with in
contravention of an order of the Ministry; and for prescribing and regulating
the liability of the owner or consignor or consignee of such animal to the
expenses connected with the seizure, detention and disposal thereof;

(d)for prescribing and regulating the destruction, burial, disposal or
treatment of carcases of animals dying while diseased or suspected;

(e)for prohibiting or regulating the digging up of carcases which have been
buried;

(f)for prescribing and regulating the disinfection of the clothes of persons
employed about or coming in contact with or likely to have been
in contact with diseased or suspected animals, and the use of precautions
against the spreading of disease by such persons;

(g)for prohibiting or regulating the sale or use of any kind of fodder or
litter whereby disease might be spread;

<(gb)for prohibiting or regulating the collection, holding or processing of animal or poultry carcases or of animal or poultry products or any thing, whether animate or inanimate, which has been in contact with such carcases or products;]


(h)for prescribing and regulating the payment and recovery of expenses in
respect of animals; and

(i)for exercising in relation to poultry all or any of the powers conferred by
paragraphs (a) to (h).

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