Welsh Statutory Instruments
ANIMALS, WALES
ANIMAL HEALTH
Made
14 November 2006
Coming into force
24 November 2006
The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 88(2) and (4) of the Animal Health Act 1981(1) and now vested in it, hereby makes the following Order:
1. The title of this Order is the Specified Animal Pathogens (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2006, it comes into force on 24 November 2006 and applies in relation to Wales.
2.—(1) The Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998(2) is amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5)
(2) For article 4, substitute—
4.—(1) No person is permitted to have in his or her possession—
(a)any animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order (“the Schedule”); or
(b)any carrier in which he or she knows such a pathogen is present,
except under the authority of a licence issued by the National Assembly for Wales (“the National Assembly”).
(2) No person is permitted to deliberately introduce into any animal any animal pathogen specified in either Part 1 or Part 2 of the Schedule, except under the authority of a licence issued by the National Assembly.
(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) apply subject to article 5.
(4) If any person has in his or her possession any thing in respect of which he or she has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of the Schedule is present, and does not have a licence in respect of that pathogen, he or she must forthwith notify a veterinary inspector.”.
(3) For article 5(2)(a), substitute—
“(a)permitted to be placed on the market under the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005(3) or the Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations etc.) Regulations 1994(4);”.
(4) For article 5(2)(c), substitute—
“(c)in respect of which an animal test certificate has been issued in accordance with regulation 8(3) of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005.”.
(5) For the Schedule, substitute the Schedule to this Order.
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(5)
Dafydd Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
14 November 2006
Article 2(5)
Articles 3 and 4
African horse sickness virus
African swine fever virus
Aujeszky’s disease virus
Avian influenza viruses which are
uncharacterised; or
Type A viruses which have an intravenous pathogenicity index in six week old chickens of greater than 1.2; or
Type A viruses H5 or H7 subtype for which nucleotide sequencing has demonstrated multiple basic amino acids at the cleavage site of haemagglutinin
Babesia bovis, Babesia Bigemina and Babesia caballi
Bacillus anthracis
Bluetongue virus
Bovine leukosis virus
Brucella abortus, Brucella melitensis, Brucella ovis and Brucella suis
Burkolderia mallei
Classical swine fever virus
Cochliomyia hominivorax
Ehrlichia ruminatium
Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses
Echinococcus multilocularis and Echinococcus granulosis
Equine infectious anaemia virus
Foot and mouth disease virus
Hendra disease virus
Histoplasma farciminosum
Japanese encephalitis virus
Lumpy skin disease virus
Mycoplasma agalactiae
Mycoplasma capricolum sub species capripneumoniae
Mycoplasma mycoides sub species mycoides SC and mycoides LC variants
Mycoplasma mycoides var capri
Newcastle disease (avian paramyxovirus type 1) viruses which are—
uncharacterised; or
have an intercerebral pathogenicity index in one-day-old chicks of 0.4 or more, when not less than 10 million 50% egg infectious doses (EID50) are administered to each bird in the test
Nipah disease virus
Peste des petits ruminants virus
Rabies virus and all viruses of the genus Lyssavirus
Rift Valley Fever virus
Rinderpest virus
St Louis equine encephalomyelitis virus
Sheep and goat pox virus
Swine vesicular disease virus
Teschen disease virus
Theileria annulata
Theileria equi
Theileria parva
Trichinella spiralis
Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma congolense, Trypanosoma equiperdum, Trypanosoma evansi, Trypanosoma simiae and Trypanosoma vivax
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus
Vesicular stomatitis virus
West Nile virus
The live virus causing viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits”
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/463) (“the 1998 Order”) in so far as it applies in relation to Wales.
This Order—
(a)adds Nipah disease virus, West Nile virus and St. Louis equine encephalomyelitis virus to Part 1 of the Schedule;
(b)updates certain terms in the Schedule with those now more commonly used by the scientific community;
(c)updates certain references to veterinary medicines legislation; and
(d)clarifies article 4 of the Order as to which controls apply to pathogens in each Part of the Schedule.
A draft of this Order was notified to the European Commission in accordance with Directive 98/34/EC (OJ No L 204 21/07/98 p.37), as amended by Directive 98/48/EC (OJ No L217 05/08/98 p.18).
A regulatory appraisal has been undertaken in respect of this Order and is available for inspection at the offices of the National Assembly for Wales, Department of Environment, Planning and Countryside, Crown Buildings, Cathays Park, Cardiff.
1981 c. 22. See section 86(1) for a definition of “the Ministers”. The functions of “the Ministers”, in so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by virtue of S.I. 1999/672 and S.I. 2004/3044.