The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (Amendment) (No. 5) Order 2001

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 122

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (Amendment) (No. 5) Order 2001

Made

25th March 2001

Coming into force at 6.00 p.m. on

25th March 2001

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by article 17(1) of the Foot and Mouth Disease Order 1983(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (Amendment) (No. 5) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 25th March 2001 at 6.00 p.m.

Amendment of infected area

2.  For Schedule 1 to Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Order 2001(2), there is substituted the Schedule 1 set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Revocations

3.  The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 2) Order 2001(3) and the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (Amendment) (No. 4) Order 2001(4) are revoked.

DAVID R DICKSON

A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers

Pentland House Edinburgh

25th March 2001

Article 2

SCHEDULE SCHEDULE 1 AS SUBSTITUTED BY THIS ORDER

Article 2

“SCHEDULE 1

The infected area shall comprise those parts of the Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders and South Lanarkshire council areas, within the following boundaries:–

(a) from the East Channel at the mouth of the River Cree at map ref NX500530 follow the East Channel to where it meets the A75(T) at map ref NX473577; turn left onto the A75(T) and continue north then north east to its junction with the A712 at map ref NX427653; turn right onto the A712 and continue north east to its junction with the A713 at map ref NX641784; continue along the A712 to its junction with the B7075; turn left onto the B7075 and continue to its junction with the A702 at Map Ref NX644812; turn right onto the A702 and continue north east to its junction with the B729; continue east and then north east on the A702 to its junction with the A76(T); turn left onto the A76(T) and continue to its junction with the A702; turn right onto the A702 and continue north east to its junction with the A74(M);

(b) continue north on the A74(M) to its junction with the A702; turn right onto the A702 and continue north east to its junction with the B7016; turn right onto the B7016 and continue east to its junction with the A701 at map ref NT112367; turn right onto the A701 and continue to its junction with the B712; turn left onto the B712 and continue north east to its junction with the A72, turn right onto the A72 and continue east to its junction with the B7062 at map ref NT251404;

(c) turn right onto the B7062 and continue to its junction with the B709; turn right onto the B709 and continue south east and then south to its junction with the B711 at map ref NT303177; turn left onto the B711 and continue to its junction with the A7(T) at map ref NT483134; turn left onto the A7(T) and continue to its junction with the A698; turn right onto the A698 and continue to its junction with the A6088; turn right onto the A6088 and continue to its junction with the A68(T); continue east on the A68(T) to where the road crosses the Scotland/England border at NT697068; turn left and follow the Scotland/England border south west to the sea at map ref NY153632.

Map references are to the Ordnance Survey Landranger 1:50,000 series.”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends the infected areas declared by the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory and Declaratory (No. 2) Orders and combines them in one description, as set out in Schedule 1 to the first of those Orders.

A map depicting the infected area may be inspected between 9.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m., Monday to Friday at the Scottish Executive Rural Affairs Department, Pentland House, 47 Robb’s Loan, Edinburgh EH14 1TW

(1)

S.I. 1983/1950, as amended by S.I. 1993/3119 and S.I. 1995/2922, and as regards Scotland, by S.S.I. 2001/52, 55 and 101. See article 3(1) for the definition of “the Minister”. The functions of “the Minister”, so far as exercisable in relation to Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)

S.S.I. 2001/56, amended by S.S.I. 2001/63, 66, 90, 91, 109 and 110.

(3)

S.S.I. 2001/59, amended by S.S.I. 2001/63, 66, 90 and 109.

(4)

S.S.I. 2001/110