The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 5) Amendment (No. 4) Order 2001

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 247

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 5) Amendment (No. 4) Order 2001

Made

22nd June 2001

Coming into force at 5.00 p.m. on

22nd June 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 (No. 5) Amendment (No. 4) Order 2001 and shall come into force at 5.00 p.m. on 22nd June 2001.

Amendment of infected area

2.  For Schedule 1 of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 5) 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. 5) Amendment (No. 3) Order 2001(3) is revoked.

DAVID R DICKSON

A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers

Pentland House,

Edinburgh

22nd June 2001

Article 2

SCHEDULESCHEDULE 1 AS SUBSTITUTED BY THIS ORDER

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1

The infected area shall comprise those three parts of the Dumfries and Galloway council area, within the following boundaries:–

(1) from the coast at map ref NX047492 at Cairngarroch Bay follow the foot track until it meets the minor road at map ref NX055494; turn right on the minor road and continue east until it meets the B7042; turn right onto the B7042 and follow the B7042 to its junction with the A716 at Sandhead; at the junction follow a minor track east until it meets the coast at map ref NX100502; follow the coastline to map ref NX047492 at Cairngarroch Bay;

(2) (a) from the coast at map ref NX236518 at Cock Inn on the A747 continue north west until it meets the A75(T); turn right onto the A75(T) and continue until it meets a minor road at map ref NX271600;

(b)turn right onto the minor road and continue south east until it meets the B7052; turn left onto the B7052 and continue until it meets the junction of the B733; turn right onto the B733 and continue until it meets a minor road at map ref NX364575;

(c)turn left onto the minor road and continue north east until it meets the A714 at Balterson Cross; turn right onto the A714 and continue south until it crosses the Borrowmoss Burn at map ref NX424576; follow the Borrowmoss Burn south east then north east until it meets the River Cree at map ref NX460587; follow the coastline to map ref NX236518 to Cock Inn;

(3) (a) from the coast at map ref NY153633 continue west along the coastline to map ref NX847538 Rockcliffe; follow the minor road north east until it meets the A710; turn left onto the A710 and continue until it meets the A711 at Dalbeattie;

(b)turn right onto the A711 and continue north east until it meets a minor road at map ref NX864661; turn left onto the minor road and continue north west until it meets a minor road at map ref NX848705;

(c)turn right on the minor road and continue north east until it meets another minor road at map ref NX849706; turn left onto the minor road and continue until it meets the A75(T);

(d)turn right onto the A75(T) and continue north east until it meets the A712; turn left onto the A712 and continue north west until it meets a minor road map ref NX768758; turn right onto the minor road and continue north until it meets another minor road at map ref NX760805;

(e)turn right onto the minor road and continue north east until it meets another minor road at map ref NX800841; turn left on the minor road and continue until it meets the A702;

(f)turn right onto the A702 and continue east and then north east to its junction with the B729; continue east and then north east on the A702 to where it meets the border between the Dumfries and Galloway and South Lanarkshire council areas at map ref NS913084; turn south east and follow that border until the conjunction with the borders of the Dumfries and Galloway, South Lanarkshire and Scottish Borders council areas at map ref NT047142;

(g)continue east then south east following the border between the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway council areas until it meets the England/Scotland Border at map ref NY453797; turn right onto the England/Scotland Border and follow it until it meets the sea at map ref NY153633.

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

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order reduces the infected area declared by the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 5) 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, 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. 2001/165, as amended by S.S.I. 2001/180, 192, 203 and 204.