Explanatory note

This Order prohibits the landing in Great Britain of any hay or straw from a place outside Great Britain except under the authority of a licence. The prohibition does not apply to the landing of hay or straw being used for packing merchandise or to goods manufactured from straw or to esparto grass. Article 5 confers powers on inspectors appointed under the Diseases of Animals Act 1950 to ensure that hay or straw landed in contravention of the Order is either destroyed or exported and article 8 makes the deliberate contravention of the Order an indictable offence.