2001 No. 121
ANIMALS
ANIMAL HEALTH

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Ascertainment of Value) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 2001

Made
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 34(7) of the Animal Health Act 19811 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and extent1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Foot and Mouth Disease (Ascertainment of Value) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 2001 and shall come into force at 7.00 p.m. on 23rd March 2001.

(2)

This Order extends to Scotland only.

Ascertainment of value of an animal2.

(1)

For the purposes of the Animal Health Act 1981 the value of an animal caused to be slaughtered by the Scottish Ministers because of foot-and-mouth disease shall be ascertained in accordance with this article and not the Diseases of Animals (Ascertainment of Compensation) Order 19592.

(2)

If the owner elects to have an animal valued by a valuer, the value, for the purpose of paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 3 to that Act, shall be the amount determined in writing by a valuer appointed jointly by the Scottish Ministers and the owner of the animal or, failing such appointment, by a valuer appointed by the President of the Institute of Auctioneers and Appraisers in Scotland.

(3)

If the owner does not elect to have the animal valued by a valuer in accordance with paragraph (2) above, the value shall be the amount set out for that animal in the Schedule to this Order.

(4)

The valuer shall be paid by the Scottish Ministers in respect of the expenses of that valuer incurred pursuant to this Order.

Revocation3.

The Foot and Mouth Disease (Ascertainment of Value) (Scotland) Order 20013 is revoked.
D J CRAWLEY
A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers

Pentland House,

Edinburgh

SCHEDULE

Article 2(3)

Animal

Rate (£)

SHEEP

Breeding ewes (in lamb/lamb at foot)

90

Cull/draft ewes

32

Hoggets (male and female old season’s lamb)

55

New season’s lamb

60

Rams

150

PIGS

Gilts

190

Breeding sows

130

Cull sows

80

Piglets on sow

18

Stores: Breeding units (weaners)

30

Stores: Finishing unit

55

Boars

520

CATTLE

Clean cattle: steers (no more than 30 months old)

600

Clean cattle: heifers (no more than 30 months old)

500

Clean cattle: young bulls (no more than 30 months old)

580

Breeding cows

1,100

Breeding heifers

900

Breeding bulls

1,000

Cull cattle (including clean cattle more than 30 months old)

325

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which extends to Scotland only, establishes the system for ascertaining the value of animals slaughtered because of foot-and-mouth disease.

It revokes and remakes the Foot and Mouth Disease (Ascertainment of Value) (Scotland) Order 2001 principally with amendments to the Schedule to provide a value for cull cattle.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been prepared.