SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 9Amendment of Enactments conferring Nature Conservancy Functions
Animal Health Act 1981 (c. 22)
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The Animal Health Act 1981 shall be amended as follows.
2
In section 21 (destruction of wildlife on infection)—
a
in subsection (3), after the word “Council” there shall be inserted the words “for the area to which it will apply”;
b
in subsection (9), after the definition of “animals” there shall be inserted the following definition—
“Nature Conservancy Council” means the Nature Conservancy Council for England, the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland or the Countryside Council for Wales,
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In section 22 (powers of entry for s.21), in subsection (7)(a) for the words from “the Nature Conservancy” to “1973”, there shall be substituted the words “a Nature Conservancy Council under section 132 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990”.