Amendment of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Declaratory (Controlled Area) (Scotland) (No. 3) Order 2001

2.—(1) The Foot-and-Mouth Disease Declaratory (Controlled Area) (Scotland) (No. 3) Order 2001(1) is amended in accordance with this article.

(2) After article 4(17)(2) there is inserted–

“(18) Subject to paragraph (19) below, no person shall–

(a)shear, clip or dag sheep, or cause sheep to be sheared, clipped or dagged; or

(b)handle fleeces or sheep during shearing, clipping or dagging,

except in accordance with the conditions of a licence issued by the Scottish Ministers.

(19) Paragraph (18) shall not apply to–

(a)the occupier of any premises, or that occupier’s employee (unless that person is employed primarily for the purpose of shearing sheep), in respect of the shearing of sheep kept on those premises;

(b)the owner of sheep, in respect of the shearing of those sheep and of other sheep provided that–

(i)those other sheep are run with that owner’s sheep in a common flock;

(ii)the owner and the owner of those other sheep are members of the same grazings committee appointed under section 47 of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993(3); or

(c)those parts of Scotland which are an infected area by virtue of an order made by the Scottish Ministers under article 17(1) of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983.”.

(1)

S.S.I. 2001/111, as amended by S.S.I. 2001/131, 146, 150, 159, 170, 181 and 187.

(2)

Article 4(17) was inserted by S.S.I. 2001/170.