Amendment to Foot-and-Mouth Disease Declaratory Orders

2.—(1) The Orders specified in paragraph (2) below are amended in accordance with paragraph (3) below.

(2) The Orders referred to in paragraph (1) above are–

(a) the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Order 2001(1); and

(b) the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 2) Order 2001(2).

(3) In Schedule 2 of each of the foresaid Orders–

(a) for paragraph 2(d) of each of the foresaid Orders, there is substituted–

• “no person shall seek to carry out breeding of animals by means of artificial insemination other than with semen that is on the premises on which the animals are kept or with semen delivered directly to those premises by an insemination centre, except under the authority of a licence issued by an inspector;”; and

  (b)

  paragraph 3 shall be deleted.

(1)

S.S.I. 2001/56, as amended by S.S.I. 2001/63, 66, 90, 91 and 110.

(2)

S.S.I. 2001/59, as amended by S.S.I. 2001/63, 66 and 90