{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-and-rural-affairs-miscellaneous-revocations-order-2018/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-and-rural-affairs-miscellaneous-revocations-order-2018/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/739",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Revocations) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-and-rural-affairs-miscellaneous-revocations-order-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Agriculture, England And Wales\nAgricultural Employment, England\nAgricultural Wages\nAnimals, England And Wales\nAnimal Health\nEnvironmental Protection, England And Wales\nLand Drainage\nMade 19th June 2018\nLaid before Parliament 20th June 2018\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 20th June 2018\nComing into force 11th July 2018\nThe Secretary of State in relation to England and the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales make this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 10 of the Animal Health Act 1981, paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Agriculture Act 1986, and section 61E(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1991, and now vested in them.\nThe Secretary of State also makes this Order in relation to England in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 254(1)(a) and 2(a), (c) and (h) and 266(2) of the Local Government Act 1972.\nThe Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers make this Order after consulting in accordance with section 61E(4) of the Land Drainage Act 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22. Section 10 was amended by S.I. 1990/2371 and 1993/1813. See the definition of “the Ministers” in section 86(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1986 c. 49. Paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2007/477. See the definition of “the Minister” in paragraph 18 of Schedule 1, as amended by S.I. 2002/794."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1991 c. 59. Section 61E was inserted by the Land Drainage Act 1994 (c. 25), section 1. See the definition of “the Ministers” in section 72(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The functions under sections 1 and 10 of the Animal Health Act 1981 (“the 1981 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 S.I. 1999/3141. Those functions, and the functions under section 61E(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1991 (“the 1991 Act”) so far as exercisable by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food jointly with the Secretary of State were transferred to the Secretary of State by S.I. 2002/794. The functions under section 1 and 10 of the 1981 Act so far as exercisable in relation to Wales and exercisable by the Secretary of State for Wales, and the functions under paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Agriculture Act 1986 and section 61E of the 1991 Act so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 1999/672. The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 1 and 10 of the 1981 Act, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 2004/3044. All of the above functions transferred to the National Assembly for Wales were further transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), Schedule 11, paragraphs 30 and 32."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/739/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:31.678510+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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