Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
1996 No. 273

ANIMALS
Diseases of Animals (Modification No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made
3rd July 1996

Coming into operation
24th July 1996

The Department of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 2(3) of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Diseases of Animals (Modification No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 24th July 1996.

Modification of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

2.  In Part III of Schedule 1(2) to the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 there shall be added to the list of diseases of animals specified in that Part the following—

“49.  Equine viral arteritis.”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture on

L.S.
P. T. Toal
Assistant Secretary
3rd July 1996.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)
This Order modifies Schedule 1 to the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (“the 1981 Order”). Article 2 adds equine viral arteritis to the list of diseases in Part III of Schedule 1. The effect is to make equine viral arteritis a disease regulated by the 1981 Order.


(1)
S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22) as amended by S.I. 1994/1891 (N.I. 6) Art. 19

(2)
As modified by S.R. 1985 No. 64, S.R. 1988 No. 287, S.R. 1990 No. 135, S.R. 1991 No. 250, S.R. 1991 No. 456, S.R. 1992 No. 552, S.R. 1993 No. 43, S.R. 1994 No. 11 and S.R. 1995 No. 44