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

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 90

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

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

Made

9th March 2001

Coming into force at 9.30 pm on

9th March 2001

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by articles 17(1) and 30(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, commencement and cessation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) (Declaratory and Controlled Area) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2001 and shall come into force at 9.30 pm on 9th March 2001.

(2) This Order shall remain in force until midnight on 16th March 2001.

Amendment of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Declaratory (Controlled Area) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 2001

2.  After paragraph (13) of article 4 to the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Declaratory (Controlled Area) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 2001(2), there shall be inserted as follows:–

“(14) No person shall move any carcase (other than the carcase of an animal slaughtered for human consumption or a suspect BSE or scrapie carcase destined for disposal) from premises other than a slaughterhouse or a knacker’s yard, except under the authority of a licence issued by the Scottish Ministers.”.

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

3.—(1) In each of the Orders specified in paragraph (2) below, there shall be inserted after paragraph (2)(f) of Schedule 2, as follows:–

“(g) no person shall move any carcase (other than the carcase of an animal slaughtered for human consumption or a suspect BSE or scrapie carcase destined for disposal) from premises other than a slaughterhouse or a knacker’s yard, except under the authority of a licence issued by the Scottish Ministers.”.

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

(a) the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Order 2001(3); and

(b) the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 2) Order 2001(4).

DAVID R DICKSON

A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers

Pentland House,

Edinburgh

9th March 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Order declaring Scotland to be a controlled area and the two Orders declaring certain areas in Scotland as infected areas for the purpose of combating the Foot-and-Mouth outbreak.

The movement of carcases (other than carcases slaughtered for human consumption or a suspect BSE or scrapie carcase destined for disposal) from premises other than slaughterhouses or knacker’s yards is prohibited, except under a licence issued by the Scottish Ministers.

(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 and 55. 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 virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)

S.S.I. 2001/60, amended by S.S.I. 2001/66.

(3)

S.S.I. 2001/56, amended by S.S.I. 2001/63, 65 and .

(4)

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