The Diseases of Swine Regulations 2014

Miscellaneous revocations, disapplication and consequential amendmentsE+W+S

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43.—(1) The instruments listed in Schedule 5 are revoked.

(2) Section 31(d) of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to, the Animal Health Act 1981(1) do not apply to the extent that they refer to hog cholera (otherwise known as classical swine fever).

(3) The Artificial Insemination of Pigs (England and Wales) Regulations 1964(2) are amended as follows—

(a)for regulation 7(2)(b) substitute—

“(b)infected premises under the Diseases of Swine Regulations 2014;”, and

(b)in regulation 7(2)(c), for “or swine fever” substitute “or under the Diseases of Swine Regulations 2014”.

(4) The Artificial Insemination of Pigs (Scotland) Regulations 1964(3) are amended as follows—

(a)for regulation 8(2)(b) substitute—

“(b)infected premises under the Diseases of Swine Regulations 2014;”, and

(b)in regulation 8(2)(c), for “or swine fever” substitute “or under the Diseases of Swine Regulations 2014”.

(5) The Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) (England) Regulations 2008(4) are amended as follows—

(a)for regulation 3(8) (definition of restricted meat) substitute—

“(8) Subject to paragraph (9), “restricted meat” is meat, including meat that has come into contact with meat—

(a)produced on or after the date that a protection zone or a surveillance zone is declared, or an earlier date where the Secretary of State specifies such a date for the purpose of disease control;

(b)from a restricted animal or restricted poultry that has come from an infected area, a protection zone or a surveillance zone; and

(c)from pigs that have been vaccinated to protect them from classical swine fever for 6 months (or any other specified period).”;

(b)in Schedule 1 (disease legislation) omit references to the Classical Swine Fever (England) Order 2003, the African Swine Fever (England) Order 2003 and the Swine Vesicular Disease Order 1972, and at paragraph 1 insert “The Diseases of Swine Regulations 2014”.

(6) The Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) (Wales) Regulations 2008(5) are amended as follows—

(a)in the English text, for regulation 3(8) (restricted animal, restricted poultry and restricted meat: definitions) substitute—

“(8) Subject to paragraph (9), “restricted meat” (“cig dan gyfyngiadau”) is meat, including meat that has come into contact with meat—

(a)produced on or after the date that a protection zone or a surveillance zone is declared, or an earlier date where the Welsh Ministers specify such a date for the purpose of disease control;

(b)from a restricted animal or restricted poultry that has come from an infected area, a protection zone or a surveillance zone; and

(c)from pigs that have been vaccinated to protect them from classical swine fever for 6 months (or any other specified period).”;

(b)in the English text of Schedule 1 (disease legislation) omit references to the Classical Swine Fever (Wales) Order 2003, the African Swine Fever (Wales) Order 2003 and the Swine Vesicular Disease Order 1972, and at paragraph 1 insert “The Diseases of Swine Regulations 2014”;

(c)in the Welsh text, for regulation 3(8) (anifail, dofednod a chig dan gyfyngiadau:diffiniadau) substitute—

“(8) Yn ddarostyngedig i baragraff (9), “cig dan gyfyngiadau” (“restricted meat”) yw cig, sy’n cynnwys cig a ddaeth i gyffyrddiad â chig—

(a)a gynhyrchwyd ar neu ar ôl y dyddiad y datganwyd parth gwarchod neu barth goruchwylio, neu ddyddiad cynharach os bydd Gweinidogion Cymru yn pennu’r dyddiad hwnnw at ddibenion rheoli clefydau;

(b)sy’n dod o anifail dan gyfyngiadau neu ddofednod dan gyfyngiadau sy’n dod o ardal heintiedig, parth gwarchod neu barth goruchwylio; ac

(c)sy’n dod o foch sydd wedi eu brechu er mwyn eu hamddiffyn rhag clwy clasurol y moch am 6 mis (neu unrhyw gyfnod arall a bennwyd).”;

(d)in the Welsh text of Schedule 1 (deddfwriaeth clefydau) omit references to Gorchymyn Clwy Clasurol y Moch (Cymru) 2003, Gorchymyn Clwy Affricanaidd y Moch (Cymru) 2003 and Gorchymyn Clefyd Pothellog y Moch 1972, and in paragraph 1 insert “Rheoliadau Clefydau’r Moch 2014”.

(7) The Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) (Scotland) Order 2008(6) is amended as follows—

(a)for article 4(9) (definition of restricted meat) substitute—

“(9) Subject to paragraph (10), “restricted meat” is meat, including meat that has come into contact with meat—

(a)produced on or after the date that the protection zone or surveillance zone was declared, or an earlier date where the Scottish Ministers specify such a date for the purpose of disease control;

(b)from a restricted animal or restricted poultry that has come from an infected area, a protection zone or a surveillance zone; and

(c)from pigs that have been vaccinated to protect them from classical swine fever for 6 months (or any other specified period).”;

(b)in Schedule 1 (disease legislation) omit references to the African Swine Fever (Scotland) Order 2003, the Classical Swine Fever (Scotland) Order 2003 and the Swine Vesicular Disease (Scotland) Order 2009, and at paragraph 1 insert “The Diseases of Swine Regulations 2014”.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 43 in force at 14.8.2014, see reg. 1(1)(c)

(1)

c.22. Functions conferred under that Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86) are now exercisable in relation to England by the Secretary of State. Functions of “the Ministers” 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). Functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 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. 1964/1172, amended by S.I. 1992/3161; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(3)

S.I. 1964/1171, amended by S.I. 1992/3161; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(4)

S.I. 2008/465, amended by S.I. 2009/1297.