Title, application and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 3) Order 2001; it extends to Wales and shall come into force on 14th March 2001 at 7.00 pm.
Amendment to the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983
2.—(1) The Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983(1) in so far it applies to Wales, shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this article.
(2) In paragraph (1) of article 3 (Interpretation), after the definition of “suspected animal” there shall be inserted the following definition—
““trunk road” shall have the same meaning as in section 329(1) of the Highways Act 1980(2);”.
(3) For paragraph 1(a) of article 8 (Restrictions to operate immediately on certification of suspected case of disease) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(a)the movement is through the area by railway, motorway or trunk road and the animal is not unloaded within the area; or”.
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(3)
Signed at 6.00 p.m. on 14th March 2001
D. Elis Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
Signed at 5.35 p.m. 3on 14th March 2001
Helene Hayman
Minister of State Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food