Explanatory note

The Importation of Animal Products and Poultry Products Order 1980 as amended (“the principal Order”) prohibits the landing in Great Britain of any animal product or poultry product from a place outside Great Britain except under the authority of a licence. The prohibition does not apply to the products mentioned in the Schedule to the principal Order.

This Order amends the principal Order by—

(1) extending the definition of poultry in section 87(4) of the Animal Health Act 1981 in its application to the principal Order so as to include grouse, ostriches, snipe and woodcock;

(2) substituting references to the Animal Health Act 1981 for those to the Diseases of Animals Act 1950 (c. 36) in the extension of the definition of disease in the principal Order;

(3) substituting a wider definition of animal for that previously contained in the principal Order, animal being defined as meaning any kind of mammal except man; and

(4) omitting steamed bone flour from the Schedule to the principal Order. Steamed bone flour will therefore become subject to the prohibition on landing contained in the principal Order, unless it is landed under the authority of a licence and in accordance with the conditions of that licence.