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Prohibition or control of use of certain verminicides.
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60.—(1) The Minister may make regulations for the prohibition or control of the use in the destruction of animals of substances containing live cultures of organisms pathogenic to man.
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(2) Regulations under this section may, in particular, make provision for all or any of the following matters:
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(a) the enforcement and execution of the regulations—
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(i) by officers of the Minister,
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(ii) by health authorities and their officers,
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(b) the prohibition of the use in the destruction of animals of substances containing live cultures of organisms pathogenic to man save subject to specified conditions (including the grant of a licence for such use),
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(c) the determination of the classes of persons to whom licences under the regulations are to be granted,
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(d) the prescribing of conditions governing the grant, retention and renewal of licences under the regulations,
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(e) the refusal or revocation of licences under the regulations,
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(f) the imposition of charges in respect of the grant, retention or renewal of licences under the regulations.
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(3) A person who contravenes a regulation under this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
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(4) An offence under this section may be prosecuted by the Minister or by the health authority in whose functional area the offence is committed.
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