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GAZETTE
JUNE 1996
ILT DIGEST
OF LEGISLATION AND SUPERIOR COURT DECISIONS
Compiled by DAVID BOYLE
ADMINISTRATIVE
Irish Steel Limited Act 1996 (No. 8 of
1996)
This Act was signed by the President on
30 April 1996. (Cf. (1996) 14 ILT 128.)
Irish Steel Limited Act 1996 (Section
9)(Commencement) Order 1996 (SI
No. 153 of 1996)
This Order brings s. 9 "of the Irish Steel
Limited Act 1996 into operation with
effect from 30 May 1996.
Harbours Bill 1995
This Bill has been passed by both
Houses of the Oireachtas. (Cf. (1995)
13 ILT 176.)
Metrology Bill 1996
This Bill has been amended in the
Select Committee on Enterprise and
Economic Strategy. (Cf. (1996) 14 ILT
51.)
An Bord Bia (Amendment) Bill 1996
This private member's Bill, as presented
by Senator Maurice Manning, aims to
increase the membership of the Bord
and its subsidiary boards and to provide
that one ordinary member of each shall
be appointed on the nomination of an
organisation which the Minister
considers to be representative of
consumers.
Statistics (Census of Population) Order
1996 (SI No. 91 of 1996)
This Order specifies the information to
be obtained and persons to be included
in the census which took place on 28
April 1996.
AGRICULTURE
European Communities (Trade in
Certain Animal Products) Regulations
1996 (SI No. 102 of 1996)
These Regulations implement Council
Directive 92/118/EEC (of 17 December
1992) laying down animal health and
public health requirements for products
not subject to such requirements laid
down in other specific Community
rules.
They also: provide tor the
appointment of authorised officers by
the Minister; lay down the powers
which may be exercised by such
officers; and establish offences in the
case
of
contravention
of
the
Regulations.
The Regulations came
into operation on 15 April 1996.
Bovine Tuberculosis (Attestation of the
State and General Provisions) Order
1996 (SI No. 103 of 1996)
This Order obliges herdowners to
attach ear-tags to bovine animals born
within their herds within 30 days of
birth or, in any event, before they are
moved from a holding. It also requires
them to complete certain details on the
cattle identity cards within a certain
period. The Minister is authorised to
issue ear-tags and identity cards for this
purpose and to supply a herd identifier
to each herdowner for the purposes of
such identification.
Herdowners are
further required to replace any ear-tag
attached to an animal under the Order
which has become illegible or which
has been lost. The Order came into
operation on 15 April 1996.
European Communities (Registration of
Bovine Animals) Regulations 1996 (SI
No. 104 of 1996)
These Regulations implement Council
Directive 92/102/EEC and Council
Regulation (EEC) 3508/92 insofar as
they relate to the registration and
recording of bovine animals.
They
require herdowners to register the births
of all bovine animals in their herds
within a period of seven days from the
date of identification. They also require
all herdowners to keep registers of the
cattle present in their herds. The
Regulations came into operation on 15
April 1996.
Abbatoirs (Control of Designated
Bovine Offal) Regulations 1996 (SI No.
106 of 1996)
These Regulations control the use of
designated bovine offal which must be
removed
in
an
approved
slaughterhouse or abhatoir and be kept
separate from other meat and edible
offal. It must then either be utilised
under a licence issued by the Minister
for Agriculture, Food and Forestry or be
disposed of following rendering. The
Regulations came into operation on 22
April 1996.
European Communities (Trade in
Bovine Breeding Animals, their Semen,
Ova and Embryos) Regulations 1996
(SI No. 112 of 1996)
These Regulations implement (as far as
bovine
breeding
animals
are
1
concerned) the provisions of Council
Directives 77/504/EEC and 94/28/EC.
They make the posession of illegally
imported semen, ova or embryos of the
bovine species an offence and make
certain other provisions with regard to
importation of such items.
ANIMAL WELFARE
Control of Horses Bill 1996
This Bill, as presented by Mr Jimmy
Deenihan, TD, Minister of State at the
Department of Agriculture, Food and
Forestry, aims to control wandering
horses in urban areas. Among its
proposed
provisions
are:
the
declaration by local authorities of
control areas where horses may not be
kept without licences; the granting of
such licences subject to compliance
with conditions to be set out in bye-
laws; disqualification from keeping a
horse or obtaining a licence; a ban on
the sale of horses to minors under 16
years; the seizure, detention and
disposal of stray, unlicenced or
unidentifiable horses which are causing
a nuisance or posing a danger; criminal
liability for for injury or damage caused
by horses; and relevant powers of
enforcement for the Garda Siochana.
COMMERCIAL
Consumer Credit Act 1995 (Commence-
ment) Order 1996 (SI No. 121 of 1996)
This Order brought the Consumer
Credit Act 1995 (with the exception of
s. 54(3)) into force on 13 May 1996.
Consumer Credit Act 1995 (Section 2)
Regulations 1996 (SI No. 127 of 1996)
These Regulations amend the definition
of 'credit institutions' and 'mortgage
lender' in the Consumer Credit Act
1995 (Section 36) Regulations 1996 (SI
No. 128 of 1996). These regulations
replace the form of notice set out in Part
I of the Third Schedule to the Consumer
Credit Ac t 1995 with an amended
version.
Consumer Credit Act 1995 (Section 37)
Regulations 1996 (SI No. 129 of 1996)
These Regulations make clear that the
references in ss. 31(2)(a) and 35(1 Ma) of
the Consumer Credit Act 1995
to
'credit limit' are references to the credit
limit available at the commencement of
the agreement. The conditions under