The Animal Gatherings (Interim Measures) (England) (Amendment) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 31

ANIMALS, ENGLAND

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Animal Gatherings (Interim Measures) (England) (Amendment) Order 2003

Made

9th January 2003

Coming into force

31st January 2003

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by sections 1, 7, 8 and 83 of the Animal Health Act 1981(1) makes the following Order:

Title, extent and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Animal Gatherings (Interim Measures) (England) (Amendment) Order 2003; it extends to England only and comes into force on 31st January 2003.

Amendment to the Animal Gatherings (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2002

2.  Article 1(2) of the Animal Gatherings (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2002(2) shall be amended by substituting “1st April 2003” for “1st February 2003”.

Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of StateDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

9th January 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Animal Gatherings (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/202 as amended) so that that Order continues in effect until 1st April 2003.

(1)

1981 c. 22. Functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86 of that Act) were transferred, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141) and were then further transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

(2)

S.I. 2002/202 as amended by S.I. 2002/1328, S.I. 2002/1765 and S.I. 2002/2152.