Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Jurisdiction | Ireland |
Citation | IR SI 182/2020 |
Year | 2020 |
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in |
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 26th May, 2020. |
I, MICHAEL CREED, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 36 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 ( S.I. No. 15 of 2013 ), hereby make the following Regulations: |
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into operation on 22 May 2020. |
2. The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Regulations 2017 are amended – |
(a) by the substitution, for Regulation 3 (2) of - |
“(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to – |
(a) a bovine from which a sample was taken under the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Order 2012 or the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Regulations 2014, or |
(b) a cow from whose calf a sample was taken and tested for the presence of bovine viral diarrhoea virus before the commencement of the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Amendment) Regulations 2020.”, |
(b) in Regulation 9 (1) by deleting “born after 1 January 2013,”, |
(c) in Regulation 9 (2) by deleting “born on or after 1 January 2013,”, and |
(d) In Regulation 10 (1) by deleting “a bovine born on or after 1 January 2013, or,”. |
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GIVEN under my Official Seal, |
21 May, 2020. |
MICHAEL CREED, |
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. |
EXPLANATORY NOTE |
(This note is not part of the instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation) |
The effect of these Regulations is to provide for the compulsory testing of all bovines born before 1 January 2013 for the presence of the bovine viral diarrhoea virus, with the exception of those female bovines for which a valid BVD virus test result is recorded for one or more offspring. |
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