The Veterinary Surgery (Artificial Insemination) (Amendment) Order 2009

Made: 8th October 2009

Laid before Parliament: 20th October 2009

Coming into force: 9th November 2009

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Department for Agriculture and Rural Development, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 19(4)(e) and (6) of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966[^f00001] and now vested in them[^f00002] and after consultation with the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, make the following Order:

Title and commencement

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This Order—

• (a) may be cited as the Veterinary Surgery (Artificial Insemination) (Amendment) Order 2009; and

• (b) comes into force on the 9th November 2009.

Amendments to the Veterinary Surgery (Artificial Insemination) Order 2007

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• (1) The Veterinary Surgery (Artificial Insemination) Order 2007[^f00003] is amended as follows.

• (2) For article 1(1)(b) substitute—

(b) applies in the United Kingdom save for Part 2 which applies in England, Scotland and Wales only; and

• (3) In article 3(2)(b)—

• (a) replace the comma immediately after “Secretary of State” with “or”; and

• (b) omit “or the National Assembly for Wales”.

Signed

type=start slip=2010-11-01 time=1288872097899Dan Norristype=end slip=2010-11-01 time=1288872097899 — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 6th September 2009

Ann McKechin — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Scotland Office — 7th September 2009

Wayne David — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Wales Office — 25th September 2009

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on

Colette McMaster — A senior officer of the — Department of Agriculture and Rural Development — 8th October 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order applies Part 2 (artificial insemination of cows) of the Veterinary Surgery (Artificial Insemination) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1315) to Wales. It removes the National Assembly for Wales from the list of persons who may approve training courses in the artificial insemination of cows.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as only a minor impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1966 c.36 “The Ministers” referred to in section 19(4)(e) are defined in section 27(1) of the Act. The definition of “the Ministers” was amended to “the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales and the Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland acting jointly” by paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272).

[^f00002]: The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in section 19 of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 were transferred to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by article 3(1) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794). By virtue of section 95(5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to, the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c.47), the reference in the 1966 Act to the Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland is to be construed as a reference to the Northern Ireland department which exercises that function or to the Northern Ireland Minister in charge of that department. The Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland was renamed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by article 3(4) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1)).

[^f00003]: S.I. 2007/1315 as amended by S.I. 2007/1767