S.I. No. 276/1967 - Foot and Mouth Disease (Restriction on The Movement of Persons) (Amendment) Order, 1967.

S.I. No. 276 of 1967.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE (RESTRICTION ON THE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1967.

I, NEIL T. BLANEY, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1966 (No. 6 of 1966), hereby for the prevention of the spreading of foot and mouth disease, order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Foot and Mouth Disease (Restriction on the Movement of Persons) (Amendment) Order, 1967.

2. (1) Article 4 of the Foot and Mouth Disease (Restriction on the Movement of Persons) Order, 1967 ( S.I. No. 266 of 1967 ), shall be construed and have effect as if the following were added thereto:

"(j) any building or other land on which animals are present or to which animals have access for the time being."

(2) Article 5 of the said Order shall be construed and have effect as if "building or other land" were substituted for "or land" in both places where that expression occurs.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 6th day of December, 1967.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to extend the provisions of the Foot and Mouth Disease (Restriction on the Movement of Persons) Order, 1967, so as to prohibit persons who have been in Britain within the previous twenty-one days from entering, within twenty-one days of their arrival in this country, any building or other land on which animals are present or to which animals have access.