The Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Amendment) Order 1991

Made: 1st March 1991

Coming into force: 18th March 1991

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 on them by sections 1, 7(1)(a), (b) and (c) and (2), 23(f) and (g) of the Animal Health Act 1981[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Amendment) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 18th March 1991.

Amendment

2

The Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) Order 1978[^f00002] shall be amended as follows:—

• (a) for the provisions of Schedule 1 to that Order (which lists disinfectants approved by the Minister) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to this Order;

• (b) for the provisions of Schedule 2 to that Order (which lists disinfectants subject to transitional provisions) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to this Order; and

• (c) in article 6(2) of that Order (which specifies the date until which disinfectants subject to transitional provisions remain approved) for the words “30 June 1990” there shall be substituted the words “30 June 1991”.

Revocation

3

The Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Amendment) Order 1990[^f00003] and the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1990[^f00004] are revoked.

SCHEDULE 1 — PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2 — PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 2

Signed

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 20th February 1991.

John Selwyn Gummer — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Strathclyde — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 26th February 1991

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 18th March 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) Order 1978 by substituting new schedules for Schedules 1 and 2 to that Order (article 2 (a) and (b)). Schedule 1, which lists approved disinfectants, includes newly approved disinfectants, and Schedule 2 lists disinfectants which are now omitted from Schedule I but which may nevertheless continue to be used as approved disinfectants until 30th June 1991 (article 2 (c)).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c. 22; see section 86(1)(c) for the definition of “the Ministers”.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1978/32; relevant amending instruments are S.1. 1990/309, 1589.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1990/309.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1990/1589.