The Bluetongue Order 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 3154

Animals, England

Animal Health

The Bluetongue Order 2007

Made

3.30 p. m. on 2nd November 2007

Coming into force

6.00 p. m. on 2nd November 2007

This Order makes provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient for the reference to Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1266/2007 (on implementing rules for Council Directive 2000/75/EC as regards the control, monitoring, surveillance and restrictions on movements of certain species of susceptible animals in relation to bluetongue(2))to be construed as references to that Regulation as amended from time to time.

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972 (3) and sections 1, 7(1), 8(1), 15(4), 17(1), 23, 25, 28, 32(2), 34, 35, 36, 83(2) and 88(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981(4):

(1)

1972 c.68.

(2)

OJ No. L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 37.

(3)

Paragraph 1A was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51).

(4)

1981 c. 22. Powers to make Orders under these sections were originally conferred on “the Ministers” by section 86 of the Act. Those powers are now exercisable by the Secretary of State. Functions of “the Ministers” were transferred, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141). Functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were then further transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).