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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.
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Adoption Act (Northern Ireland) 1967
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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.
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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.
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A marriage is void if either person is under 16.
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The Ministry can frame and approve agricultural marketing schemes, and schemes can require producer registration, board administration, and compliance rules.
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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.
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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hold land; the Act also confirms the scheduled agreement, exempts it from stamp duty, and notes that the Act was later repealed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Minister of Agriculture may, by order subject to affirmative resolution, abolish county committees of agriculture, transfer their functions, and make related consequential provisions.
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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.
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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.
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The Ministry may make schemes to destroy vermin in any area, after considering recommendations from county agricultural committees.
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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.
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This Act amends and repeals various agricultural laws, and it says certain repeals do not interrupt holiday-related application during a transition period.
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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.
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This provision sets out how an inspector must handle a sample taken for analysis, and what must happen in later proceedings.
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This Act amends the Agriculture (Temporary Assistance) Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 and gives the 1954 and 1957 Acts a joint short title.