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19 1970

HORSE INDUSTRY ACT, 1970

PART I

Preliminary and General

Short title.

1. —This Act may be cited as the Horse Industry Act, 1970.

Definitions.

2. —In this Act—

the Board” means Bord na gCapall established by this Act;

the establishment day” means the day appointed to be the establishment day for the purposes of this Act under section 4 of this Act;

functions” includes powers and duties, and references to the performance of functions include references to the exercise of powers;

horse” includes any mare, gelding, pony, foal, colt, filly or stallion and also any ass, mule or jennet;

licence” means a licence for the time being in force granted under section 28 of this Act;

the Minister” means the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries;

premises” includes lands.

Expenses.

3. —Any expenses incurred by the Minister in the administration of this Act, shall to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

Establishment day.

4. —The Minister may by order appoint a day to be the establishment day for the purposes of this Act.

Laying of orders and regulations before Houses of Oireachtas.

5. —Every order and regulation under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order or regulation is passed by either such House within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the order or regulation is laid before it, the order or regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the order or regulation.