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The Horse Passports (Amendment) Order 1998

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 1998-09-22
State In force
Department Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament
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Made: 22nd September 1998

Coming into force: 19th October 1998

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 and 8(1) 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 Horse Passports (Amendment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 19th October 1998.

Amendment to the Horse Passports Order 1997

2

In article 9 of the Horse Passports Order 19972 after “The keeper of a horse” there shall be inserted the words “born on or after 1st January 1998”.

Signed

Jeff Rooker — Minister of State Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 9th September 1998

Sewel — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Scottish Office — 14th September 1998

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen Jones — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Welsh Office — 22nd September 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends article 9 of the Horse Passports Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2789) (movement of a horse) so that it only applies in relation to horses born on or after 1st January 1998. This amendment implements article 2 of Commission Decision 93/623/EEC establishing the identification document (passport) accompanying registered equidae (OJ No. L298, 3.12.93, p.45).

Footnotes

1

1981 c. 22. See section 86(1)(c) for a definition of “the Ministers”.

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