WELFARE OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 5 Powers of entry and inspection.

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WELFARE OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 5

Powers of entry and inspection.

5.(1) An authorised officer may, on production of his authority if so
required, at any reasonable time enter upon any land, other than premises used
wholly or mainly as a dwelling, for the purpose of ascertaining whether an
offence under this Part has been committed on the land.

(2) An authorised officer may take for analysis a sample of any substance
which he finds on the land and which appears to him to be intended for use as
food for livestock; and the provisions of subsections (2) to (7) of section 6
of the Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (which
relate to the dividing up, analysis and evidence of analysis of certain
samples) shall have effect in relation to a sample taken under this section as
they have effect in relation to a sample taken under the said section 6 but as
if for references to that Act, an inspector and such an employer as is
mentioned in the said section 6 there were substituted respectively references
to this Part, the officer taking the sample and a person appearing to that
officer to have custody of the substance in question.

(3) An authorised officer may examine any livestock which he finds on the land
and apply to and take from the livestock such tests and samples as he
considers appropriate; and an officer by whom a sample is taken from livestock
in pursuance of this subsection shall, if before the sample is taken he is
requested to do so by any person appearing to him to have custody of the
livestock, deliver a part of the sample or a similar sample to the person who
made the request.

(4) Where an authorised officer requests any person present on the land, being
the occupier or a servant of the occupier of the land or a person having the
custody of any livestock present on the land,

(a)to indicate to the officer the places on the land used for the
accommodation of livestock or for the storage or treatment of any substance
intended for use as food for livestock; or

(b)to give such assistance to the officer as is reasonable in the
circumstances,

(5) A person who fails to perform his duty under subsection (4) or otherwise
wilfully obstructs or delays an authorised officer in the exercise of his
functions under this section shall be guilty of an offence.

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WELFARE OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 5