No. 42/1930:

THE IMPORTATION OF PARROTS (TEMPORARY) REGULATIONS, 1930.

THE IMPORTATION OF PARROTS (TEMPORARY) REGULATIONS, 1930.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

To the port sanitary authorities of Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Galway; to every sanitary authority as hereinafter defined; to all officers of customs and excise; to all medical officers of health of the port sanitary authorities aforesaid, and to all others whom it may concern:

WHEREAS by virtue of Section 148 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health is empowered from time to time to make, alter and revoke such regulations as to him may seem fit with a view to (amongst other things) preventing the spread of epidemic, endemic or infectious diseases, and to declare by what authority or authorities such regulations shall be enforced and executed:

AND WHEREAS by the Public Health Act, 1896, it is enacted in effect that regulations made under the said section 148 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, may provide for such regulations being enforced and executed by the officers of customs and excise, provided that such regulations, so far as they apply to the officers of customs and excise, shall be subject to the consent of the Revenue Commissioners:

AND WHEREAS Psittacosis is an infectious disease and it is expedient to make the regulations hereinafter set forth for preventing the spread thereof in Saorstát Eireann by prohibiting the importation into Saorstát Eireann of certain cage birds by which the said disease is propagated:

AND WHEREAS the Revenue Commissioners have signified their assent to these regulations so far as they apply' to officers of customs and excise:

NOW THEREFORE the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1919, and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, hereby makes the following regulations, that is to say:

1. In these Regulations:—

the expression "parrot" includes a cockatoo, parakeet, love-bird or any other bird of the parrot species; the expression "officer of customs and excise" includes any person enforcing or executing these regulations under the authority of the Revenue Commissioners: the expression "sanitary authority" means, in relation to a customs port or customs station or any part thereof which is within the jurisdiction of a port sanitary authority, the port sanitary authority, and in relation to any other customs port or customs station or part thereof, the sanitary authority for the purposes of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1919, whose district includes or abuts on such port, station or part thereof.

2. No person shall import into Saorstát Eireann any parrot.

3. Where a parrot has been imported into Saorstát Eireann in contravention of these regulations it shall be forfeited and the proper officer of customs and excise shall notify the sanitary authority of such importation and forfeiture.

4. Whenever a sanitary authority receives under the foregoing Article a notification in respect of any parrot they shall cause such parrot to be destroyed under the supervision of a medical officer of health or other officer, and such officer shall certify the fact of such destruction to the officer of customs and excise from whom such notification was so received.

5. For the purpose of these regulations a parrot which is brought to Saorstát Eireann by sea shall not, so long as it remains in the ship in which it is so brought, be deemed to have been imported into Saorstát Eireann.

6. These regulations may be cited as "The Importation of Parrots (Temporary) Regulations, 1930."

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health this Third day or May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty.

(Signed) RISTEÁRD UA MAOLCHATHA,

Minister.

NOTICE.—The Public Health Act, 1896, provides by sub-section (3) of Section 1 that if any person wilfully neglects or refuses to obey or carry out or obstructs the execution of any regulation made under any of the enactments mentioned in that Act he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding One Hundred Pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds for every day during which the offence continues.