2001 No. 55
ANIMALS
ANIMAL HEALTH

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (No. 2) (Scotland) Order 2001

Made
Coming into force at 8.00pm on
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 2 and 23(b) of the Animal Health Act 19811 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and extent1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Foot and Mouth Disease (Amendment) (No.2) (Scotland) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st March 2001 at 8.00pm.

(2)

This Order extends to Scotland only.

Amendment to the Foot and Mouth Disease Order 19832.

In the Foot and Mouth Disease Order 19832 there shall be substituted for article 35B(1) and (2)3, as follows:–

“(1)

If the Scottish Ministers have confirmed foot and mouth disease in any part of a local authority area, the local authority of that area may, by regulations published in such manner as those regulations shall specify, prohibit (for the purposes of preventing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease) the movement of any person into or out of an area identified in those regulations except on a public road.

(2)

The local authority of an area where foot and mouth disease has not been confirmed may, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers, by regulations published in such manner as those regulations shall specify, prohibit (for the purposes of preventing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease) the movement of any person into or out of an area identified in those regulations except on a public road.”.

D J CRAWLEY
A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers

Pentland House,Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (Scotland) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/52) to substitute article 35B(1) and (2). These provisions allow local authorities in areas where foot and mouth disease has been confirmed to make regulations prohibiting the movement of persons into or out of specified areas except on public roads. In areas where foot-and-mouth disease has not been confirmed the local authority may make such regulations with the consent of the Scottish Ministers.