The Cattle Identification (Notification of Movement) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 22

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Cattle Identification (Notification of Movement) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002

Made

24th January 2002

Coming into force on

18th February 2002

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

25th January 2002

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Cattle Identification (Notification of Movement) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 18th February 2002.

(2) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Amendment to the Cattle Database Regulations 1998

2.  In regulation 7(e) of the Cattle Database Regulations 1998(2) for “15 days of the movement (or, for a movement on or after 1st January 2000, within 7 days of the movement)”, there is substituted “3 days of the movement”.

Amendment to the Cattle (Identification of Older Animals) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

3.  In regulation 7(2)(e) of the Cattle (Identification of Older Animals) (Scotland) Regulations 2001(3) for “7 days”, there is substituted “3 days”.

ROSS FINNIE

A member of the Scottish Executive

Pentland House,

Edinburgh

24th January 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, amend the Cattle Database Regulations 1998 and the Cattle (Identification of Older Animals) (Scotland) Regulations 2001. They reduce from 7 days to 3 days the period within which notification of movements of cattle must be posted or made by electronic means by a keeper to the Scottish Ministers.

This is in accordance with the requirements of the second indent of Article 7.1 of Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000 establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals (O.J. No. L 204, 11.8.2000, p.1).

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations.

(1)

1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3). The functions conferred upon the Minister of the Crown under section 2(2) of the 1972 Act, insofar as within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.

(2)

S.I. 1998/1796.

(3)

S.S.I. 2001/1.