The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) (Declaratory and Controlled Area) Amendment Order 2001

Amendment of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Orders

3.—(1) Each of the Orders specified in paragraph (2) below shall be amended, as follows:–

(a) after article 2, there shall be inserted, as follows:–

“Enforcement

2A.   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.”; and

(b) there shall be inserted after paragraph (2)(e) of Schedule 2, as follows:–

“(f) Article 20 of the Foot and Mouth Disease Order 1983 shall not apply if the slaughterhouse or knackery product is controlled by and the movement is for the purpose of disposal of in accordance with–

(a) the Specified Risk Material Order 1997;

(b) the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997; or

(c) the Animal By-Products Order 1999.”.

(2) The Orders referred to in paragraph (1) above are–

(a) the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Order 2001(1); and

(b) the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 2) Order 2001(2).

(3) In Schedule 1(3) to the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Order 2001, for the words “Carstairs Junction”, there shall be substituted the word “Sanquhar”.

(1)

S.S.I. 2001/56, amended by S.S.I. 2001/63 and .

(2)

S.S.I. 2001/59, amended by S.S.I. 2001/63.

(3)

Substituted by S.S.I. 2001/