Statutory Instruments

1974 No. 2211

ANIMALS

DISEASES OF ANIMALS

The Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974

Made

31st December 1974

Laid before Parliament

15th January 1975

Coming into Operation

5th February 1975

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 24(1), 33(1), 77(3), 84(1)(a) and 85(1) of the Diseases of Animals Act 1950 (as adapted to air transport by section 11 of and Schedule 2 to the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954 and to hovercraft by the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1972(1), and, as respects section 1 of the Act of 1950, as extended by section 3(b) of the Rabies Act 1974, and, as respects section 24(1) of the said Act of 1950, as amended by section 105(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970 and extended by sections 5 and 6 of the said Act of 1974), and now vested in them(2), and of all their other enabling powers, for the purpose of preventing the introduction of rabies into Great Britain, hereby order as follows:—

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

(1)

(1972 II, p. 3024).

(2)

By the Transfer of Functions (Animal Health) Order 1955 (S.I. 1955/958; 1955 I, p. 1184).