Statutory Instruments
ANIMALS
DESTRUCTIVE ANIMALS
Made
21st December 1987
Coming into force
1st January 1988
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932(1) and now vested in them(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury in accordance with section 2(c) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Mink (Keeping) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.
2. The Mink (Keeping) Regulations 1975(3) shall be amended by substituting in regulation 5(3) (fee payable in respect of the granting of a licence) for the amount “£58” the amount “£115”.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 18th December 1987.
L.S.
John MacGregor
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Sanderson of Bowden
Minister of State, Scottish Office
18th December 1987
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
18th December 1987
Approved,
Nigel Lawson
Mark Lennox-Boyd
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
21st December 1987
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Mink (Keeping) Regulations 1975 by increasing the fee for a licence to keep mink from £58 to £115 with effect from 1st January 1988.
1932 c. 12; the Act was applied in relation to mink by virtue of section 10(1) of the Act and S.I. 1982/1745.
In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales by virtue of S.I. 1969/388.