The Cattle Passports (Fees) Order 1996

Made: 2nd September 1996

Laid before the House of Commons: 2nd September 1996

Coming into force: 23rd September 1996

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 section 84(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury in accordance with that section, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Cattle Passports (Fees) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 23rd September 1996.

Replacement cattle passports

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• (1) Any person applying for a replacement cattle passport under the provisions of article 13 of the Cattle Passports Order 1996[^f00002] shall pay to the appropriate Minister a fee of £50.

• (2) The fee shall be payable in full before a replacement passport is issued at the time that an application for a replacement passport is lodged with the appropriate Minister.

• (3) The fee shall be forfeited if the applicant withdraws the application or the appropriate Minister is unable to obtain sufficient information to issue a replacement passport.

Signed

Angela Browning — Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 1st September 1996

Raymond Robertson — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — 1st September 1996

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jonathan Evans — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — 2nd September 1996

We consent

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order prescribes the fee payable for the issue of a replacement cattle passport under the Cattle Passports Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1686).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c. 22. See section 86(1) for a definition of “the Ministers” and “the appropriate Minister”.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1996/1686.