S.I. No. 186/1963 - Importation of Meat and Animal Products Order, 1963.

S.I. No. 186 of 1963.

IMPORTATION OF MEAT AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS ORDER, 1963.

I, PATRICK SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 22 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, and section 4 of the Agriculture Act, 1931 (No. 8 of 1931), hereby order as follows:—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Importation of Meat and Animal Products Order, 1963.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1963.

2.—The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3.—In this Order references to meat, meat offals or meat extract are references to meat, meat offals or meat extract derived from any cattle, sheep, goat, horse, swine or any ruminating animal not previously mentioned in this paragraph, and "meat offals" includes the tail, tongue, fat and all internal parts of the animal concerned.

4. Subject to paragraph 5 of this Order, this Order applies to any meat, meat offals or meat extract, or any product containing meat, meat offals or meat extract, whether uncooked, cooked or processed.

5.—This Order does not apply to—

(i) rendered fats, processed animal oils, rennet and bone charcoal;

(ii) any meat, meat offals or meat extract, or any product containing meat, meat offals or meat extract—

(a) which is imported in an airtight container,

(b) which was produced in a country mentioned in the First Schedule to this Order, and

(c) as respects which a certificate of the type described in the Second Schedule to this Order is furnished to the proper officer of customs and excise at the time of importation.

6.—The importation of articles to which this Order applies is hereby prohibited.

7.—Nothing in this Order shall be construed as affecting the operation of the Orders set out in the Third Schedule to this Order.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

A certificate issued by the Government of the country in which the article was produced and signed by an officer of that Government, to the effect that—

(i) all the articles in the consignment have been prepared in premises approved for that purpose by that Government,

(ii) all the articles have been effectively sterilised by means of a heat treatment, and

(iii) effective measures have been taken to prevent any subsequent contamination of the articles or their containers.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Foreign Animals (Ireland) Order of 1901.

Importation of Carcases (Prohibition) Order of 1926 (S. R. & O., No. 66 of 1926), as amended by the Importation of Carcases (Prohibition) (Amendment) Order of 1927 (S. R. & O., No. 49 of 1927), and the Importation of Carcases (Prohibition) Order of 1926 (Amendment) Order, 1938 (S. R. & O., No. 65 of 1938).

Public Health (Saorstát Éireann) (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations, 1928 (S. R. & O., No. 54 of 1928), as amended by the Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) (Amendment) Regulations, 1943 (S. R. & O., No. 74 of 1943).

Bacon (Regulation of Import) Order, 1938 (S. R. & O., No. 135 of 1938).

Meat (Regulation of Import) Order, 1938 (S. R. & O., No. 336 of 1938).

Foot and Mouth Disease (Prohibition of Movement of Carcases from Northern Ireland) Order, 1941 (S. R. & O., No. 597 of 1941).

Food Hygiene Regulations, 1950 ( S.I. No. 205 of 1950 ).

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 28th day of September, 1963.

PATRICK SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to prohibit the importation of meat and meat products with the exceptions stated in paragraph 5.