The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 2007

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1996

Made

31st July 1996

Coming into force

1st August 1996

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 on them by sections 1, 7(1), 8(1), 15(4), 32(2), 35(1) and (1A), 36(5)(a), 72, 83(2), 87(2) and (5) and 88(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:—

(1)

1981 c. 22; see section 86(1) for definitions of “the Minister” and “the Ministers”; sections 1, 7(1), 8(1), 72, 83(2), 86(1), 87(2) and (5) and 88(2) were applied to bovine spongiform encephalopathy by the Zoonoses Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/2264).