# The Zoonoses Order 1988, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 29 of the Animal Health Act 1981 (“the Act”) empowers Ministers, with a view to reducing the risk to human health from any disease of animals, to make an order designating any such disease which, in their opinion, constitutes such a risk and applying any provision of the Act to that disease.
The Order designates bovine spongiform encephalopathy for the purposes of section 29 (article 3(1)) and applies certain provisions of the Act to bovine spongiform encephalopathy with a view to reducing any risk to human health from that disease (article 3(2) and the Schedule).
The Order also amends article 2 of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1988 so that the definition of “disease” as extended by that article will now apply for all the purposes of the Act without being restricted to the purposes of that Order (article 4).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2264/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/zoonoses-order-1988/note
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