The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 5) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 1407

ANIMALS, ENGLAND

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 5) Order 2001

Made

6th April 2001

Coming into force at 11 p.m. on

6th April 2001

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, acting in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1, 8 and 17(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, makes the following Order:

Title, extent and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 5) Order 2001; it extends to England and shall come into force at 11 p.m. on 6th April 2001.

Amendment to the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983

2.—(1) The Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983(2) is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this article.

(2) In article 31(2)(a), the words “sheep, cattle or pigs” are replaced by the word “animals”.

(3) In Schedule 5, paragraph 1 of the “Conditions of Licence” is replaced by the following paragraph—

“1.   Before being moved, animals to which this licence relates shall be marked as follows:—

• CATTLE (including water buffalo and bison): A broad arrow, 15 cm long, clipped on left hindquarter, and hair clipped off end of tail.

• SHEEP AND GOATS: A single red stripe, 30 cm long and 2 cm wide, painted with adhesive composition, or in such manner that it will remain legible for the entire length of the journey, down the centre of the back.

• PIGS AND WILD BOAR: A single red stripe, 30 cm long and 2 cm wide, painted with adhesive composition, or in such manner that it will remain legible for the entire length of the journey, down the centre of the back.

• DEER: A single red stripe, 60 cm long and at least 5 cm wide, painted with adhesive composition, or in such manner that it will remain legible for the entire length of the journey, down the centre of the back.”

Signed at 3 p.m.

Hayman

Minister of State Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

on 6th April 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which extends to England, amends the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 (S.I. 2001/1950, as amended) by extending the categories of animals within a controlled area (declared by Part IV of that Order) that can be moved to slaughter under licence. The animals that can now be moved include: all cattle, sheep, goats, other ruminating animals and swine (including wild boar).

(1)

1981 c. 22. See section 86(1) for the definitions of “the Ministers” and “the Minister”. Functions of “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales in relation to England, were transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141).

(2)

S.I. 1983/1950, as amended by S.I. 1993/3119, S.I. 1995/2922 and, as regards England, S.I. 2001/571, S.I. 2001/680, S.I. 2001/974, S.I. 2001/1078 itself amended by S.I. 2001/1241.