The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (Wales) (No.7) Order 2001

Made: 2:55 p.m. 11th May 2001

All other provisions: 5 p.m. 11 th May 2001

Coming into force: Article 37C: 1st June 2001

The National Assembly for Wales and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, acting in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 7, 8, 15(4), 23, 25, 38(1) and 83(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, make the following Order:

Title, application and commencement

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 7) Order 2001; it applies to Wales and shall come into force in accordance with paragraph (2) below.

• (2) Article 37C shall come into force on 1st June 2001 and all other provisions shall come into force at 5 pm on 11th May 2001.

Amendment to the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983

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• (1) The Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 (“the 1983 Order”)[^f00002] in so far as it applies to Wales, is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this article.

• (2) Parts III and IV are replaced by the text set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.

• (3) Schedules 5 and 6 are revoked.

Transitional provisions

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Declaratory Orders made under Part III of the 1983 Order before this Order comes into force, shall have effect so that the provisions of Part III of the 1983 Order as amended by this Order, apply in those areas.

SCHEDULE 1

Signed

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[^f00003]

John Marek — The Deputy Presiding Officer of the National Assembly — at 2:18 pm on 11th May 2001

Helene Hayman — Minister of State Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — Signed at 2:55 pm on 11th May 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order replaces Parts III and IV of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 (“the 1983 Order”) (S.I. 1983/1950). It consolidates the changes made to these Parts by—

• The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (Wales)(No4) Order (S.I. 2001/1033 (W.47)) as amended by S.I. 2001/1234 (W.67);

• The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (Wales)(No5) Order (S.I. 2001/1406 (W.93));

• The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (Wales)(No6) Order (S.I. 2001/1509 (W.106)).

It further amends the provisions of the 1983 Order by—

• (a) amending the range of prohibited activities that are prohibited in an infected area (article 29A of the amended Part III) and in a controlled area (article 36 of the amended Part IV);

• (b) amending articles 21 and 33 (control of carcases) to make it clear that the carcase of a deer slaughtered under article 29A or 36 can only be moved from the place it is killed, under the authority of a licence of the Minister;

• (c) removing from the Order the form of licence for movements to slaughter;

• (d) amending articles 27 and 37C (sheep shearing) so as to prohibit (subject to certain exemptions) the shearing or dipping of sheep in an infected area and the shearing of sheep in a controlled area except in accordance with the terms of a licence issued by the Minister.

A regulatory appraisal has not been prepared for these Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1983/1950, as amended by S.I. 1993/3119, S.I. 1995/2922 and, as regards England, S.I. 2001/571, S.I. 2001/680, S.I. 2001/974, S.I. 2001/1078, S.I. 2001/1407 and S.I. 2001/1514.

[^f00002]: 1998 c. 38.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1999/646.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1997/2964 as amended by S.I. 2000/3234, S.I. 2000/3377 S.I. 2000/3387 (W. 224) and S.I. 2001/1735 (W.122).

[^f00005]: S.I. 1997/2965 as amended by S.I. 1997/3062, S.I. 1998/2045 itself amended by S.I. 1998/2431, S.I. 1999/539, S.I. 2000/656, S.I. 2000/2659 (W.172), and S.I. 2000/3387 (W. 224).

[^f00006]: S.I. 1978/32 as amended by S.I. 1978/934, S.I. 1999/919 and as further amended in relation to England only by S.I. 2000/3195 and S.I. 2001/608 and in relation to Wales only by S.I.2001/641 (W.31).

[^f00007]: 1981 c. 22. See section 86(1) for the definitions of “the Ministers” and “the Minister”. Functions of “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable by the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Wales, were transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141). Functions of “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable by the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

[^f00008]: S.I. 1999/646.

[^f00009]: S.I. 1997/2964 as amended by S.I. 2000/3234, S.I. 2000/3377, S.I. 2000/3387 (W/224) and S.I. 2001/1735 (W.122).

[^f00010]: S.I. 1997/2965 as amended by S.I. 1997/3062, S.I. 1998/2045 itself amended by S.I. 1998/2431, S.I. 1999/539, S.I. 2000/656, S.I. 2000/2659 (W.172), and S.I. 2000/3387 (W/224).