The Mink (Keeping) (Amendment) Regulations 1987

Made: 21st December 1987

Coming into force: 1st January 1988

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932[^f00001] and now vested in them[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury in accordance with section 2(c) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Mink (Keeping) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.

Amendment of the Mink (Keeping) Regulations 1975

2

The Mink (Keeping) Regulations 1975[^f00003] shall be amended by substituting in regulation 5(3) (fee payable in respect of the granting of a licence) for the amount “£58” the amount “£115”.

Signed

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 18th December 1987.

John MacGregor — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sanderson of Bowden — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 18th December 1987

Peter Walker — Secretary of State for Wales — 18th December 1987

Approved,

Nigel Lawson — Mark Lennox-Boyd — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 21st December 1987

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Mink (Keeping) Regulations 1975 by increasing the fee for a licence to keep mink from £58 to £115 with effect from 1st January 1988.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1932 c. 12; the Act was applied in relation to mink by virtue of section 10(1) of the Act and S.I. 1982/1745.

[^f00002]: In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales by virtue of S.I. 1969/388.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1975/2223; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1982/1883.