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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 19 May 1993

Vol. 431 No. 1

Animal Remedies Bill, 1993: Financial Resolution.

I move:

That for the purpose of any Act of the present session to revise the law relating to the regulation of animal remedies by repealing and re-enacting with amendments the provisions of the Animal Remedies Act, 1956, and by otherwise extending those provisions, to provide for the giving of effect to acts of the European Communities relating to animal remedies, to provide for the repeal of the Therapeutic Substances Act, 1932, to provide for identity documents for certain officers of the Minister and other persons in respect of certain statutory functions exercisable by such officers and other persons and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid, it is expedient to make provision for the charging by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry of fees or levies on or in respect of—

(a) an application for the grant of any licence, or for an authorisation, pursuant to regulations made under any such Act, or

(b) tests and analyses on—

(i) any animal, animal carcase or food derived from, or with reasonable cause suspected of having derived from, an animal or an animal carcase, or on any specimen from such animal or animal carcase or sample from such food,

(ii) any substance to establish whether or not such substance is an animal remedy or an ingredient for an animal remedy, or

(iii) any machinery, instruments and other things used, or with reasonable cause suspected of being or having been used, in connection with animal remedies,

under any Act of the present session to provide as aforesaid.

Question put and agreed to.
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