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Scottish Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 196

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 6) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2001

Made

29th May 2001

Coming into force at 5.00 p.m. on

29th May 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 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 (No. 6) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2001 and shall come into force at 5.00 p.m. on 29th May 2001.

Extension of infected area

2.  For Schedule 1 of the Foot–and–Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 6) Order 2001(2), there is substituted the Schedule 1 set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Revocation

3.  The Foot–and–Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 6) Amendment Order 2001(3) is revoked.

DAVID R DICKSON

A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers

Pentland House,

Edinburgh

29th May 2001

Article 2

SCHEDULESCHEDULE 1 AS SUBSTITUTED BY THIS ORDER

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1

The infected area shall comprise that part of the Scottish Borders council area within the following boundaries:–

(a)at map ref NT791379, follow the course of the river Tweed north west, then south west to where it meets Eden Water at map ref NT767375; turn right onto Eden Water and follow its course west to where it is crossed by the B6461; turn right onto the B6461, then immediately left onto a minor road and continue north west to its junction with the B6364; turn left onto the B6364 and continue to its junction with a minor road at map ref NT712383; turn right onto the minor road and continue south west to its junction with another minor road at map ref NT702378; turn right onto the minor road and continue north west to its junction with a minor road at map ref NT670404; turn left onto the minor road and continue south west to its junction with the A6089;

(b)turn right onto the A6089 and continue north west to its junction with a minor road at map ref NT624455; turn right onto the minor road and continue north to where it meets the A697; turn left, then immediately right onto a minor road and continue north to its junction with the B6456; turn right onto the B6456 and continue to its junction with a minor road at map ref NT647503; turn left onto the minor road and continue north until it joins a track at map ref NT643524; continue north on the track to its junction with another track at map ref NT648580; turn right onto the track and continue north to where it becomes a minor road;

(c)continue north east on the minor road to its junction with another minor road at map ref NT674595; turn right onto the minor road and continue south east to its junction with a minor road at map ref NT682589; turn left onto the minor road and continue until it meets Hall Burn tributary at map ref NT688597; turn right onto Hall Burn tributary and continue north east until it joins Whiteadder Water; turn left onto Whiteadder Water and follow its course north to where it is crossed by the B6355; turn left onto the B6355 and continue north west to its junction with a minor road at map ref NT688628;

(d)turn right onto the minor road and continue to its junction with another minor road at map ref NT693632; turn left onto the minor road and continue east and then north to its junction with Monynut Water at map ref NT694676; turn right onto Monynut Water and continue south east to where it meets a tributary at map ref NT728643; turn left onto the tributary and continue until it meets a minor road at map ref NT728644; turn left onto the minor road and continue north east until it meets Whare Burn at map ref NT733655; turn right onto Whare Burn and continue south east to where it is crossed by a minor road at map ref NT755638;

(e)turn left onto the minor road and continue east to where it meets another minor road at map ref NT767644; turn left onto the minor road and continue north to its junction with another minor road at map ref NT764653; turn right onto the minor road and continue north east to where it joins another minor road at map ref NT775666; continue east on the minor road to its junction with the A1(T); turn right onto the A1(T) and continue south east to its junction with a minor road at map ref NT815656; turn left onto the minor road and continue north east to where it crosses Howpark Burn at map ref NT826662; turn right onto Howpark Burn and continue east to where it is crossed by a track at map ref NT843663; turn left then immediately right onto the track and continue to where it meets Mid Grange Burn at map ref NT848668;

(f)turn right onto Mid Grange Burn and continue north east then south east to where it is crossed by a minor road at map ref NT871655; turn right onto the minor road and continue south east to its junction with the B6438; turn right onto the B6438 and continue south west across the A1(T) to where it crosses the Dunbar to Berwick upon Tweed railway line; turn left onto the railway line and continue south east to where it crosses the B6355; turn right onto the B6355 then immediately left on to a minor road at map ref NT922596; continue east on the minor road past Lamberton, to its junction with another minor road at map ref NT968580; turn right onto the minor road and continue south east to its junction with another minor road at map ref NT972575; turn left onto the minor road and continue to its junction with the A1(T); turn right onto the A1(T) and continue south east to where it meets the England/Scotland border at map ref NT974570; turn right onto the Scottish Border and continue south east along the border until map ref NT791379.

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 area declared by the Foot and Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 6) Order 2001 and subject to the restrictions therein.

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. 2001/168, as substituted by S.S.I. 2001/194.