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These Regulations may be cited as the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 21st October 2002.
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(1) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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(1) In Regulation 12 of the principal Regulations –
(a) in paragraph (2) after the words “Council Directive 64/432/EEC” there shall be added the words –“and is satisfied that the operator of the assembly centre has agreed to comply with the requirements for the operation of the centre which the Department has specified in an operational agreement as being the requirements the inspector believes are necessary to ensure the centre is capable of being operated in accordance with the second indent of Article 3(2) of Council Directive 90/425/EEC”; and
(b) in paragraph (3), after the words “cattle or pigs” there shall be inserted the words “or sheep or goats”.
(2) In Part I of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations –
(a) in paragraph 9, after the entry referring to Commission Decision 97/315/EC there shall be added the following entry –“
 Commission Decision 2001/327/EC (O.J. No. L115, 25.4.2001, p. 12), as amended by Decisions 2001/349/EC (O.J. No. L123, 4.5.2001, p. 26), 2001/378/EC (O.J. No. L132, 15.5.2001, p. 31), 2001/394/EC (O.J. No. L138, 22.5.2001, p. 36), 2001/416/EC (O.J. No. L149, 2.6.2001, p. 40), 2001/488/EC (O.J. No. L176, 29.6.2001, p. 75), 2001/709/EC (O.J. No. L261, 29.9.2001, p. 69), 2001/904/EC (O.J. No. L335, 19.12.2001, p. 21) 2002/153/EC (O.J. No. L50, 21/2/2002, p. 98) and 2002/242/EC (O.J. No. L82, 26.3.2002, p. 18);” and
(b) after paragraph 15 there shall be added the following paragraph –“
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Commission Decision 2001/327/EC (O.J. No. L115, 25.4.2001, p. 12), as amended by Decisions 2001/349/EC (O.J. No. L123, 4.5.2001, p. 26), 2001/378/EC (O.J. No. L132, 15.5.2001, p. 31), 2001/394/EC (O.J. No. L138, 22.5.2001, p. 36), 2001/416/EC (O.J. No. L149, 2.6.2001, p. 40), 2001/488/EC (O.J. No. L176, 29.6.2001, p. 75), 2001/709/EC (O.J. No. L261, 29.9.2001, p. 69), 2001/904/EC (O.J. No. L335, 19.12.2001, p. 21, 2002/153/EC (O.J. No. L50, 21.2.2002, p. 98) and 2002/242/EC (O.J. No. L82, 26.3.2002, p. 18).
Relevant provisions: Article 2a”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 19th September 2002.
L. G. McKibben
A senior officer of the
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
