The Disease Control (England) (Amendment) Order 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 2476

animals, england

animal health

The Disease Control (England) (Amendment) Order 2007

Made

23rd August 2007

Coming into force

24th August 2007

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 8(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981(1), makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Disease Control (England) (Amendment) Order 2007 and comes into force on 24th August 2007.

Amendment

2.—(1) The Disease Control (England) Order 2003(2) is amended as follows.

(2) After article 3, insert—

“Emergency measures

3A.— (1) This article imposes interim measures and ceases to have effect on 30th September 2007.

(2) In articles 4 and 5(b), the references to 6 days shall be read as references to 20 days.

(3) In the case of premises within a sole occupancy group that are 8 or more kilometres apart, paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 apply on the first occasion that an animal is moved between those premises, but cease to apply for any subsequent movement of any animal between those premises.”.

Phil Woolas

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

23rd August 2007

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Disease Control (England) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1729) to prohibit the movement of —

(a) any sheep, goats or cattle from any premises if any sheep, goats, cattle or pigs have been moved on to those premises in the previous 20 days;

(b) any pig from any premises if any cattle, goats or sheep have been moved on to the premises in the previous 20 days.

It also disapplies the exemptions from the standstill provisions for certain movements of animals between premises in a sole occupancy group that are 8 kilometres or more apart.

These amendments cease to have effect on 30th September 2007.

An impact assessment has not been prepared for this Order.

(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 transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

(2)

S.I. 2003/1729, as amended by S.I. 2005/3100 and 2006/182.