The Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Amendment) Order 1997

Made: 25th September 1997

Coming into force: 20th October 1997

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) and 23(f) and (g) of the Animal Health Act 1981¹, 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 1997 and shall come into force on 20th October 1997.

Amendments to the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) Order 1978

2

The Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) Order 1978² 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 the disinfectants subject to transitional provisions remain approved) for the words “30th June 1995” there shall be substituted the words “31st December 1997”.

Revocations

3

The Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Amendment) Order 1994³ and the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Amendment) Order 1996⁴ are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE 1 — PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2 — PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 2 TO THE 1978 ORDER

Signed

Jeff Rooker — Minister of State Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 22nd September 1997

Brian Wilson — Minister of State Scottish Office — 25th September 1997

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Win Griffiths — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales — 25th September 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/32) by replacing Schedules 1 and 2 to that Order (article 2). Schedule 1 lists disinfectants approved by the Minister, and Schedule 2 lists disinfectants which, although no longer approved, can continue to be used as approved disinfectants until 31st December 1997.

The Order revokes the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Amendment) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2965) and the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/697).

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