The Disease Control (England) (Amendment) Order 2007

S.I. 2007/2476 · Made 23 August 2007 · Extends to England, Wales and Scotland

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Provision	Change	Made by
Order	revoked	Animal Health (Miscellaneous Revocations) 2017 art. 2(b)

animals, england

animal health

Made 23rd August 2007

Coming into force 24th August 2007

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 8(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981^f1, makes the following Order:

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Footnotes

f1: 1981. c. 22. Functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86 of that Act) were transferred, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141) and were then transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

1Citation and commencement
2Amendment
Signature
Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Disease Control (England) (Amendment) Order 2007 and comes into force on 24th August 2007.

2Amendment

(1)

The Disease Control (England) Order 2003^f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

After article 3, insert—

“Emergency measures

3A.

(1)
This article imposes interim measures and ceases to have effect on 30th September 2007.

(2)
In articles 4 and 5(b), the references to 6 days shall be read as references to 20 days.

(3)
In the case of premises within a sole occupancy group that are 8 or more kilometres apart, paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 apply on the first occasion that an animal is moved between those premises, but cease to apply for any subsequent movement of any animal between those premises.”.

Signature

Phil Woolas

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

23rd August 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Disease Control (England) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1729) to prohibit the movement of —

(a)

any sheep, goats or cattle from any premises if any sheep, goats, cattle or pigs have been moved on to those premises in the previous 20 days;

(b)

any pig from any premises if any cattle, goats or sheep have been moved on to the premises in the previous 20 days.

It also disapplies the exemptions from the standstill provisions for certain movements of animals between premises in a sole occupancy group that are 8 kilometres or more apart.

These amendments cease to have effect on 30th September 2007.

An impact assessment has not been prepared for this Order.