(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Artificial Insemination of Cattle (Animal Health) (Scotland) Regulations 1985 (“the principal Regulations”) in order to make transitional provision relating to the expiry of emergency licences issued under the Artificial Insemination of Cattle (Emergency Licences) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 during the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. A definition of such licences is inserted in the principal Regulations by regulation 2(2) of these Regulations, and regulation 2(3) preserves the effect of anything done under such licences.
These Regulations amend regulation 21 of the principal Regulations to permit the acceptance for supply of semen collected in accordance with an emergency licence from an approved bull (regulation 2(4)).
They amend regulation 24 of the principal Regulations to permit the use of semen collected in accordance with an emergency licence (regulation 2(5)(a)).
These Regulations also amend regulation 24 of the principal Regulations to enable the Scottish Ministers to recognise training courses in addition to those already recognised by the (now defunct) Agricultural Training Board (regulation 2(5)(b)).
A Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been prepared in respect of these Regulations.