OpenLegislation

The Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) (Amendment) Order 1996

S.I. 1996/3185 · Made 17 December 1996

Original text. legislation.gov.uk does not revise statutory instruments, so later amendments are not shown here. Changes made to it are listed under each provision when known.

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

Made 17th December 1996

Coming into force 24th January 1997

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1 and 8(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981f1, as applied by the Zoonoses Order 1988f2, and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 11 of that Act, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:–

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1981 c. 22. See section 86(1) for a definition of “the Ministers” and “the Minister”.

f2

S.I. 1988/2264, by virtue of which bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been designated as a disease of animals which constitutes a risk within section 29 of the Animal Health Act 1981. The Order applies sections 1 and 8(1) of the 1981 Act in relation to that disease.

Contents

  1. 1Title and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) Order 1996
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Title and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) (Amendment) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 24th January 1997.

2Amendment of the Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) Order 1996

(1)

In Article 2(1) of the Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) Order 1996f1 the definition of scheme animal shall be replaced by the following definition–

  • ““scheme animal” means a bovine animal–

    1. (a)

      which has been slaughtered pursuant to the purchase scheme introduced under Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96f2 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom; or

    2. (b)

      which, being an animal which has been exposed to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the Minister has caused to be slaughtered under section 32(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981.”.

Signature

Angela Browning

Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

16th December 1996

Lindsay

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Scottish Office

16th December 1996

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jonathan Grans

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Welsh Office

17th December1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the definition of “scheme animal” in Article 2 of the Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) Order 1996 with the effect that the various requirements of that Order regarding the separation of specified bovine material and other animal parts, which are already disapplied in relation to the carcases of animals slaughtered pursuant to the purchase scheme introduced under Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96, are now similarly disapplied in relation to the carcases of animals slaughtered under section 32 of the Animal Health Act 1981 as animals exposed to the infection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.