The Welfare of Animals at Markets (Amendment) Order 1993

Made: 6th December 1993

Coming into force:

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 37(1) 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

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This Order may be cited as the Welfare of Animals at Markets (Amendment) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st January 1994, except for article 2(2) which shall come into force on 1st January 1995.

Amendments to the Welfare of Animals at Markets Order

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• (1) The Welfare of Animals at Markets Order 1990[^f00002] shall be amended in accordance with this Order.

• (2) After article 5 the following article shall be added:

(5A) No person shall bring to a market, or allow to be exposed for sale in a market, a lamb or goat kid with an unhealed navel.

• (3) After article 6 the following article shall be added:

(6A) The market operator shall ensure that any lamb aged under 4 weeks (other than a lamb which is at the foot of its dam) and any goat kid aged under 4 weeks is removed from the market without undue delay, and in any event not more than 4 hours after arrival.

• (4) In article 12 (provision of lighting and bedding) at the end there shall be added in place of the full stop the following:

; and (c) the bedding provided under this provision is dry at the time it is provided.

• (5) In article 13 (covered accommodation) at the end the following paragraphs shall be added:

(3) It shall be the duty of the market authority of every market in which lambs under 4 weeks old (other than lambs at the foot of their dams) or goat kids under 4 weeks old are kept to provide solid sided draught free pens for such animals. (4) It shall be the duty of the market operator to ensure that any such lamb (other than a lamb which is at the foot of its dam) or goat kid is kept in the accommodation provided in accordance with the preceding paragraph.

• (6) In article 14(3) for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

(c) stating that, during the previous 28 days, the calf has not, or as the case may be, has only once, been brought to a market; and

Signed

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 6th December 1993.

Gillian Shephard — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Hector Monro — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Scottish Office — 29th November 1993

John Redwood — Secretary of State for Wales — 6th December 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Welfare of Animals at Markets Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/2628) by making further provisions for the protection of lambs and kids at market and making a minor clarification to article 14(3)(c).

A Compliance Cost Assessment has been prepared and a copy has been placed in the library of the House.

Footnotes

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

[^f00002]: S.I. 1990/2628.