The Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005

This Scottish Statutory instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.S.I. 2005/531 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that instrument.

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 647

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005

Made

15th December 2005

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

15th December 2005

Coming into force

23rd January 2006

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 23 January 2006.

Amendment to regulation 8 of the Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) Regulations 2005

2.  In regulation 8(1) (penalties and time limits) of the Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) Regulations 2005(2) for “six” substitute “three”.

ROSS FINNIE

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

15th December 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations correct an error in regulation 8 (penalties and time limits) of the Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 by reducing the maximum term of imprisonment, on summary conviction, for offences under the principal Regulations, from six months to three months.

(1)

1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3). The functions conferred on a Minister of the Crown by section 2(2) were transferred, insofar as within devolved competence, to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.

(2)

S.S.I. 2005/531.