Introductory text

This Statutory Instrument has been printed in consequence of defects in S.I. 2022/94 and S.I. 2022/311 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.

Draft Regulations laid before Parliament under section 37(3) of the Ivory Act 2018, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.

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Made

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(5), 37(2) and 39(1) of, and paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 1 to, the Ivory Act 2018^f1 (“the Act”).

The Secretary of State, in accordance with section 2(5) of the Act, being of the opinion that the institutions specified in the Schedule to the Ivory Prohibitions (Exemptions) (Process and Procedure) Regulations 2022^f2 have the necessary knowledge and expertise to provide the Secretary of State with advice on applications for exemption certificates and having obtained the consent of the persons in charge of each institution to the prescription of that institution as able to provide such advice, in accordance with section 2(6) of the Act, prescribes those institutions as able to provide such advice to the Secretary of State.

In accordance with section 39(3) of the Act, the Welsh Ministers, the Scottish Ministers and the Northern Ireland department^f3 have consented to the making of these Regulations.

In accordance with section 37(3) of the Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2018 c. 30. Section 39(2) and (3) contain a definition of “the appropriate national authority”.
f2: S.I. 2022/94.
f3: Section 38(1) of the Act contains a definition of “the Northern Ireland department”.