S.I. No. 323/2009 - Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Control On Animal and Poultry Vaccines) (Amendment) Order 2009


Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 14th August, 2009.

I, BRENDAN SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 and 13 of the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (No. 6 of 1966) (as adapted by the Agriculture and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2007 ( S.I. No. 705 of 2007 )) for the purpose, inter alia, of giving further effect to Article 71 of Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 1 on the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal products, hereby order as follows—

1. This order may be cited as the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Control on Animal and Poultry Vaccines)(Amendment) Order 2009.

2. The Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Control on Animal and Poultry Vaccines) Order 2002 ( S.I. No. 528 of 2002 ) is amended in the First Schedule by the deletion of “Salmonellosis (caused by or involving salmonella enteriditis or salmonella typhimurium) in poultry”

3. The Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Control on Animal and Poultry Vaccines) Order 2002 ( S.I. No. 528 of 2002 ) is amended, in Part 1 of the Second Schedule, by the insertion before “swine fever”of “Salmonellosis (caused by or involving salmonella enteriditis or salmonella typhimurium) in poultry”

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

30 July 2009.

BRENDAN SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

This Order provides for the removal of a certain disease from the First Schedule of the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Control on Animal and Poultry Vaccines) Order 2002 ( S.I. No. 528 of 2002 ) and the insertion of a certain disease in Part 1 of the Second Schedule of the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Control on Animal and Poultry Vaccines) Order 2002 ( S.I. No. 528 of 2002 ).

1 O.J. No. L311 of 28.11.2001, p.1