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1981 c.22.

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Functions were conferred under sections 8(1) and 88(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981 on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86(1) of that Act). Those functions were, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141), article 2(1) and the Schedule. They were transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794), article 2(2). Functions conferred on the Secretary of State, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3044), article 2(a) and Schedule 1, and further transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32), Schedule 11, paragraphs 30 and 32. The functions of the Ministers were, in so far as within devolved competence, transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).