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AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959

AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 -
LONG TITLE

An Act to discontinue certain payments made by local authorities for
agricultural purposes; to make further provision with respect to
schemes for the destruction of vermin and for purposes connected
with the matters aforesaid.
[26th March 1959]
S.1 rep. by SLR 1976

AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 -
SECT 2
Further provisions as to the destruction of vermin.

2.(1) The Ministry may, after considering any recommendations made to
it on behalf of a county committee of agriculture or of any two
or more than two of such committees acting jointly, make schemes
for the destruction of vermin in, or causing damage in, any area.

(2) A scheme under this section shall be subject to negative
resolution.

(3) A scheme under this section may make provision for

(a)securing or assisting the destruction of, or the reduction in the
numbers of, such vermin in such lawful manner as may be specified
in the scheme, including the destruction, or rendering of assistance
in destroying or reducing, breeding places or cover for vermin or
excluding vermin therefrom, or preventing vermin from one place
spreading to or doing damage in another place;

(b)the payment, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, of
such bounties upon such dead vermin in such manner and upon such
evidence as may be specified by the scheme;

(c)the carrying out by such officers, servants or agents of the
Ministry (including the carrying out by county committees of
agriculture as such agents) of such functions under the scheme as
may be specified by the scheme; and

(d)such incidental or supplemental matters as the Ministry may think
proper.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1972 c.15 (NI) s.1(2)

(5) For the purposes of any scheme under this section the Ministry
may employ persons to act as trappers or otherwise for the killing
or disposing of vermin.

Subs.(6) rep. by SLR 1976

(7) In this section "vermin" includes foxes and any species of
quadruped or bird which appears to the Ministry to cause substantial
damage to livestock, crops or agricultural land and to which a
scheme made by the Ministry under this section is declared by the
scheme to apply.

S.3 rep. by SLR 1976. S.4 rep. by SLR 1973

AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 -
SECT 5
Short title.

5. This Act may be cited as the Agriculture (Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland), 1959.

Schedule rep. by SLR 1973