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Sheep-Dipping Orders, 1907. 



[march, 



certain northern counties which are included with Scotland in a 

 separate dipping area (Art. i). Provision is made for an 

 annual dipping of all sheep in the dipping area during the 

 prescribed dipping period, which commences on the 1 5th May 

 and terminates on the 31st August (Arts. 2 and 5). Certain 

 exemptions are authorised subject to such conditions as the 

 Local Authority may impose as to subsequent dipping (Art. 4). 

 Notice of intention to dip is required in order that the Local 

 Authority may be represented at the dipping if they so desire. 

 If the di])ping is unavoidably postponed no further notice is 

 required provided that the sheep are dipped as soon as possible. 

 If the Local Authority is not represented at the dipping a 

 return of the dipping must be sent to their representative in the 

 Form B. (Art. 5). Sheep may be moved into the dipping area 

 without being dipped previously, and dipping is not required 

 prior to exposure in markets, but during the prescribed dipping 

 period sheep so exposed, and also all sheep moved into the 

 dipping area directly or through a market, must on arrival at 

 the farm to which they are moved, be dipped on or before the 

 31st August, and until such dipping must be isolated from 

 sheen on the premises already dipped [Art. 6 (i)]. 



The arrival of sheep at premises in the dipping area during 

 the prescribed dipping period must be notified by the occupier 

 within ten days [Art. 6 (3)], and provision is made for notifica- 

 tion to the Local Authority of the fact that the sheep have been 

 dipped or slaughtered. A Local Authority may authorise pre- 

 mises for temporary detention of sheep, and the premises will 

 then be treated as if they were a market, so as to involve 

 subsequent dipping and isolation of the sheep which pass 

 through the authorised premises [Art. 6 (5)]. 



After the expiration of the prescribed dipping period, returns 

 are required to satisfy the Local Authority that all sheep in the 

 dipping area, except those specially exempted, have been dipped 

 in accordance with the Order (Art. 9). Only sheep-dips ap- 

 proved by the Board may be used for the prescribed dipping 

 (Art. 3). Clipping before dipping is required except in the 

 case of lambs under nine months old (Art. 7). Isolation of 

 dipped sheep from undipped sheep is required (Art. 8), but this 

 does not prevent dipped sheep from being sent to a market, 



