Article 4 Prohibition of landing of embryos, ova or semen

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 4 excluded in part by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2000 reg. 34 Sch. 6
art. 4 excluded in part by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2000 reg. 34 Sch. 6
art. 4 amended by Importation of Embryos, Ova and Semen 1984
art. 4 excluded in part by Animals and Animal Products (Import And Export) 1998 reg. 34 Sch. 6
art. 4 excluded in part by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 1995 reg. 33 Sch. 6
art. 4 excluded in part by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 1993 reg. 33 Sch. 6
art. 4(1) words substituted by Importation of Animals and Related Products (Miscellaneous Amendment and Revocation) 2023 art. 5(2)(a)
art. 4(1A) inserted by Importation of Animals and Related Products (Miscellaneous Amendment and Revocation) 2023 art. 5(2)(b)
art. 4 excluded in part by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2005 reg. 34 Sch. 8
art. 4 excluded in part by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2004 reg. 34 Sch. 8
art. 4 excluded in part by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2004 reg. 34 Sch. 6
art. 4 excluded in part by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2005 reg. 34 Sch. 8
art. 4 excluded in part by Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) 2007 reg. 37(3) Sch. 9

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) below, the landing in Great Britain of any embryos, ova or semen from a place outside Great Britain is hereby prohibited except under the authority of a licence in writing issued by the appropriate Minister and in accordance with the conditions of that licence.

(2)

The prohibition in paragraph (1) above shall not apply to the landing of any semen which is landed in Great Britain in accordance with the provisions of section 17(3) of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1943.

(3)

A licence may be either general or specific and may, in either case, be issued subject to such conditions specified therein as the appropriate Minister may see fit to impose for the purpose of preventing the introduction or spreading of disease into or within Great Britain.

(4)

A general licence shall be issued by the publication of it in such manner and to such extent as appears to the appropriate Minister to be sufficient to bring it to the notice of those persons likely to be affected by it.

(5)

The appropriate Minister may vary, revoke or suspend a licence—

(a)

in the case of a general licence by a notice published, so far as practicable, in the same manner and to the same extent as the licence; and

(b)

in the case of a specific licence by a notice in writing served on the person to whom the licence was issued.