1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 7) Order 2001 and shall come into force at 12.00 noon on 25th May 2001.
(2) This Order extends to Scotland only.
2. The area described in Schedule 1 to this Order is declared an infected area within the meaning of and to which the provisions of Part III of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 apply as varied in accordance with, and disapplied to the extent set out in, Schedule 2 to this Order.
The provisions of Part III of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 shall, insofar as they are to be enforced in slaughterhouses, be enforced by the Scottish Ministers.
DAVID R DICKSON
A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers
Pentland House,
Edinburgh
25th May 2001