The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Amendment Order 2001

Made: 4th March 2001

Coming into force at 7.00 p.m. on: 4th March 2001

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by article 17(1) of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Amendment Order 2001 and shall come into force on 4th March 2001 at 7.00 p.m.

Amendment of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Declaratory Orders

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• (1) In Schedule 2 to each of the Orders specified in paragraph (2) below, there shall be inserted after paragraph 2(b), as follows:–

(ba) no person shall transport animals through the infected area, except if the animals are transiting through that area by motorway, trunk road or railway;

• (2) The Orders referred to in paragraph (1) above are–

• (a) the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Order 2001[^f00002]; and

• (b) the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 2) Order 2001[^f00003].

Signed

D J CRAWLEY — A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers — 4th March 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the two Scottish Declaratory Orders declaring infected areas under Part III of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/1950) in order to permit the transit of animals through those infected areas by motorway, trunk road or railway. These amendments are in consequence of articles 4 and 5 of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Declaratory (Controlled Area) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/60).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1983/1950, as amended by S.I. 1993/3119, 1995/2922 and, as regards Scotland, by S.S.I. 2001/52 and 2001/55.

[^f00002]: S.S.I. 2001/56.

[^f00003]: S.S.I. 2001/59