The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Scotland) (Recovery of Costs) Regulations 2001

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 401

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Scotland) (Recovery of Costs) Regulations 2001

Made

30th October 2001

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

1st November 2001

Coming into force at 3.00 p.m. on

30th October 2001

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, extent, commencement and cessation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Scotland) (Recovery of Costs) Regulations 2001.

(2) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

(3) These Regulations shall come into force at 3.00 p.m. on 30th October 2001, and shall remain in force until midnight on 31st December 2001.

Recovery of Costs

2.  The Scottish Ministers may charge the occupier of any holding or premises at which supervision or inspection is carried out for the purposes of establishing the eligibility for dispatch of products under the Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2001(2) for the costs reasonably incurred by them in that respect.

DAVID R DICKSON

A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers

Pentland House,

Edinburgh

30th October 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations permit the Scottish Ministers to recover reasonable costs for supervision or inspections carried out for the purposes of dispatch of products under the Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2001, in implementation of Commission Decision 2001/740/EC (O.J. No. L 277, 20.10.01, p.30).

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.S.I. 2001/186, as amended by S.S.I. 2001/243, 271, 367 and 394.