Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Made: 3rd August 2000

Coming into operation: 31st August 2000

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Part I — Introduction

Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Exception

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Part II — Intra-Community Trade

Application of Part II

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Exports

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Imports

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Transport of animals and animal products

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Dealers

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Approval of bodies, institutes or centres

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Inspection and checking at destination

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Duties on consignees

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Assembly centres and slaughter houses

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Illegal consignments

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Part III — Trade in Third Country Animals

Application of Part III

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Importation

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Illegal imports

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Application of regulations 7 to 13

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Arrival at the place of destination

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Post-import controls

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Part IV — General

Outbreaks of disease in other States

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Notification of decisions

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Powers of inspectors

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Recovery of expenses

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Obstruction

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Penalties

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Disapplication of provisions

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Amendment of the Sales, Markets and Lairs Order (Northern Ireland) 1975

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Revocations

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SCHEDULE 1 — Amendments to Council Directives 90/425/EEC and 91/496/EEC

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SCHEDULE 2 — Legislation on Intra-Community Trade

Part I — Bovine animals and swine

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Bovine semen

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Bovine embryos

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Equidae

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Porcine semen

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Poultry and hatching eggs

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Animal waste

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Aquaculture animals and products

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Fish other than farmed fish

Live bivalve molluscs

Ovine and caprine animals

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Other animals, semen, ova and embryos

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Pathogens

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Pure-bred animals of the bovine species

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Breeding animals of the porcine species

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Pure-bred breeding sheep and goats

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Registered Equidae

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Part II — Additional requirements for the transport of cattle and pigs

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Part III — Additional requirements for dealers in cattle and pigs

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SCHEDULE 3 — List of Diseases

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SCHEDULE 4 — Community Legislation on Third Countries

Part I — Third countries from which Member States may authorise certain imports

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Part II — Bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine from third countries

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Bovine and porcine animals from Canada

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Equidae

General

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Temporary admission of registered horses

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Registered horses for racing, etc.

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Equidae for slaughter

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Equidae for breeding and production

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Poultry and hatching eggs

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Other specified animals

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Bovine and porcine animals from Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Estonia, Croatia, the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic

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Bovine and porcine animals from Switzerland

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Bovine and porcine animals from Iceland

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Ovine and caprine animals

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Live animals in relation to foot-and-mouth disease

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Bovine and porcine animals from New Zealand

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Zootechnical conditions

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Shellfish from third countries for relaying in Community waters

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Porcine animals from Cyprus

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SCHEDULE 5 — Disapplication of Legislation

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Number	Title	Extent
S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1963 No.178	Diseases of Animals (Unlawful Importations) Order (Northern Ireland) 1963	Articles 4 and 6
S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1965 No. 175 as amended by S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1968 No. 106, S.R. 1985 No. 162 and S.R. 1992 No. 199	Diseases of Animals (Importation of Poultry) Order (Northern Ireland) 1965	The whole Order except that Article 4 shall continue to apply to all birds (including domestic fowl) and their hatching eggs other than those subject to the provisions of Council Directive 90/539/EEC (excluding domestic fowl)
S.R. 1967 c. 7 (N.I.)	Diseases of Fish Act (Northern Ireland) 1967	Section 3
S.R. 1967 No. 294	Rabbits and Hares (Control of Importation) Order (Northern Ireland) 1967	The whole Order
S.R. 1973 No. 392	Risk of Infection (Oysters) Order (Northern Ireland) 1973	The whole Order
S.I. 1975/1834 (N.I. 17)	Artificial Reproduction of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1975	Article 6(1) will no longer apply to— bovine semen which is the subject of Council Directive 88/407/EEC; bovine embryos which are the subject of Council Directive 89/556/EEC; porcine semen which is the subject of Council Directive 90/429/EEC; equine ova and embryos which are the subject of Commission Decision 95/294/EC; equine semen which is the subject of Commission Decision 95/307/EC; ovine and caprine semen, ova and embryos which are the subject of Commission Decision 95/388/EC; and porcine ova and embryos which are the subject of Commission Decision 95/483/EC.
S.R. 1977 No. 113 as amended by S.R. 1977 No. 256 and S.R. 1994 No. 402	Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order (Northern Ireland) 1977	The Order shall continue to apply to all carnivores, primates and bats. It shall continue to apply to the importation of all other animals unless such animals are imported by way of trade and can be shown to have been born on the holding of origin and kept in captivity since birth.
S.R. 1982 No. 99	Lobsters (Risk of Infection) Order (Northern Ireland) 1982	The whole Order
S.R. 1986 No. 253	Importation of Animals Order (Northern Ireland) 1986	Articles 3, 6(1) and (2), 7 to 11, 13 to 15, 16(2) and Schedule 3 except that Article 3 shall continue to apply to ruminating animals and swine other than animals which are the subject of Council Directives 64/432/EEC and 91/68/EEC.
S.R. 1991 No. 458	Risk of Infection (Fish) Order (Northern Ireland) 1991	The whole Order

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on

R. S. Johnston — A senior Officer of the — Department of Agriculture and Rural Development — 3rd August 2000.

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1811

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68

[^f00003]: O.J. No. L315, 19.11.97, p. 15

[^f00004]: O.J. No. L73, Special Edition, 27.3.72

[^f00005]: O.J. No. L1, 3.1.94, p. 1

[^f00006]: O.J. No. C241, 29.8.94, p. 21, as amended by O.J. No. L1, 1.1.95, p. 1

[^f00007]: O.J. No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 29 as read with the provisions listed in Schedule 1

[^f00008]: O.J. No. L268, 24.9.91, p. 56 as read with the provisions listed in Schedule 1

[^f00009]: See Council Decision 97/12/EC (O.J. No. L109, 25.4.97, p. 1) as read with the provisions listed in Schedule 1

[^f00010]: 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)

[^f00011]: O.J. No. L46, 19.2.91, p.1 as amended and read with the provisions listed in paragraph 8 of Schedule 2

[^f00012]: S.R. 1999 No. 308

[^f00013]: O.J. No. L268, 14.9.92, p. 54

[^f00014]: S.R. 1997 No. 346

[^f00015]: O.J. No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 55

[^f00016]: S.R. 1997 No. 493

[^f00017]: S.R. 1995 No. 396

[^f00018]: S.R. 1998 No. 45

[^f00019]: S.R. 1977 No. 113 as amended by S.R. 1977 No. 256, S.R. 1994 No. 402 and S.R. 2000 No. 10

[^f00020]: S.R. 1975 No. 294 as amended by S.R. 1982 No. 191 and S.R. 1993 No. 371

[^f00021]: S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1927 No. 97

[^f00022]: S.R. 1995 No. 52

[^f00023]: S.R. 1997 No. 87

[^f00024]: S.R. 1997 No. 272

Editorial notes

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