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This provision sets rules for intercountry adoption, gives the Department and other authorities powers and duties, creates offences for non-compliance, and provides for recognition and registration of certain adoptions.
Adoption Act (Northern Ireland) 1967
This provision sets the child-welfare test for adoption decisions, defines adoption service terms, assigns duties to adoption authorities and the Department, and creates several offences and restrictions around placement, removal, and contact.
This Act changes the default age of full age to 18 instead of 21, with transitional rules and a special rule allowing some 16-year-olds to consent to medical treatment.
A marriage is void if either person is under 16.
The Ministry can frame and approve agricultural marketing schemes, and schemes can require producer registration, board administration, and compliance rules.
This Act controls when meat may be sent out of Northern Ireland and requires licences, permits, inspections, records, and markings for meat, dead rabbits, bacon curing, and pig products.
The Institute is made a body corporate and is given power to acquire and hold land; the Act also confirms the scheduled agreement, exempts it from stamp duty, and notes that the Act was later repealed.
The Act confirms the scheduled agreement, says no stamp duty is charged on it, and provides citation wording for the Act together with the 1927 Act.
This Order abolishes the Agricultural Trust, transfers its rights, obligations and property to the Department, and lets the Department and the Trust pay compensation in specified cases.
The Order sets up Northern Ireland agricultural wage rules: the Board fixes minimum wages for agricultural workers, employers must pay at least the applicable minimum rate and keep records, and workers get holiday entitlements and holiday pay.
The Minister of Agriculture may, by order subject to affirmative resolution, abolish county committees of agriculture, transfer their functions, and make related consequential provisions.
The Department may create a carcase-marking scheme, and people covered by the scheme may have to keep records, allow inspection, and comply with marking and handling rules.
This provision sets the Order’s short title, defines “the Department” as the Department of Agriculture, gives the Department powers to make metric-related regulations, requires consultation before making those regulations, and adjusts some fines and repeals/amends other laws.
The Ministry may make schemes to destroy vermin in any area, after considering recommendations from county agricultural committees.
A person must not keep or control certain horned cattle unless they are on agricultural land or are being moved between the same person’s agricultural lands; otherwise an offence and fine may follow.
This Act amends and repeals various agricultural laws, and it says certain repeals do not interrupt holiday-related application during a transition period.
This Act mainly sets out changes to earlier agricultural laws and makes it an offence for the owner of cattle with unhealed horn-removal wounds to breach the sale and slaughterhouse restriction.
This provision sets out how an inspector must handle a sample taken for analysis, and what must happen in later proceedings.
This Act amends the Agriculture (Temporary Assistance) Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 and gives the 1954 and 1957 Acts a joint short title.
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