The Diseases of Animals (Seizure) Order 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 1685

ANIMALS

The Diseases of Animals (Seizure) Order 1993

Made

2nd July 1993

Coming into force

31st July 1993

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 35(1)and 36(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981(1), as, within the meaning of section 86 of that Act, the Ministers, and in respect of those powers in relation to brucellosis, brucella melitensis and tuberculosis, the appropriate Minister, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Diseases of Animals (Seizure) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 31st July 1993.

Extension of powers of seizure

2.—(1) An inspector or veterinary inspector shall have power to seize anything (other than a live animal) whether animate or inanimate, by or by means of which it appears to him that a disease to which section 35(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981 applies might be carried or transmitted.

(2) An inspector or veterinary inspector exercising powers under this Order shall dispose of the thing seized by destruction, burial, treatment or such other method of disposal as he thinks expedient to prevent the spread of disease.

Compensation

3.  In addition to the compensation payable by the Minister under section 36(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981, compensation shall be paid by him for carcases seized under this Order for the purpose of preventing Swine Vesicular Disease.

Revocations

4.  The following Orders are revoked—

• the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) Order 1964(2);

• the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) (Amendment) Order 1972(3);

• the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) (Amendment) Order 1983(4);

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on

L.S.

Gillian Shephard

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

25th June 1993.

Hector Monro

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

29th June 1993

John Redwood

Secretary of State for Wales

2nd July 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends the powers of inspectors to seize things (other than live animals) by means of which diseases which attract the slaughter provisions of the Animal Health Act 1981 may be spread.

These diseases are:

African Horse Sickness

African Swine Fever

Aujeszky’s Disease

Blue Tongue

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Cattle Plague (Rinderpest)

Classical Swine Fever

Contagious agalactia

Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia

Contagious Epididymitis

Enzootic Bovine Leukosis

Epizootic Haemorrhagic Virus Disease

Foot and Mouth Disease in ruminants and swine

Fowl Cholera

Fowl Paralysis

Fowl Pest in any of its forms, including Newcastle Disease and Fowl plague

Fowl Pox

Fowl Typhoid

Goat Pox

Infectious Bronchitis in poultry

Infectious Laryngotracheitis in poultry

Lumpy Skin Disease

Peste des Petits Ruminants

Psitticosis or Ornithosis

Pullorum Disease in poultry

Rabies

Rift Valley Fever

Sheep Pox

Swine Vesicular Disease

Teschen disease

Tuberculosis in cattle

Tuberculosis in deer

Vesicular Stomatitis.

In addition to the above, the slaughter provisions apply to any poultry or animals infected with organisms of the brucella or salmonella genera.

The Order revokes the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) Order 1964, S.I. 1964/1255, the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) (Amendment) Order 1972, S.I. 1972/2041, and the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) (Amendment) Order 1983, S.I. 1983/346.

(1)

1981 c. 22. Sections 35 and 36 were amended by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 (c. 40) section 1.

(2)

S.I. 1964/1255.

(3)

S.I. 1972/2041.

(4)

S.I. 1983/346.