The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011

Made: 5th October 2011

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 7th October 2011

Coming into force: 4th November 2011

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections1 and 8(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011 and comes into force on 4thNovember 2011.

Amendment of the Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) (Scotland) Order 2011

2

For article3 (notifications etc.) of the Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) (Scotland) Order 2011[^f00002] substitute—

(3) Any notice, walking licence, notification, authorisation or approval under this Order must be in writing, may be made subject to conditions and may be amended, suspended or revoked by notice in writing at any time.

Signed

RICHARD LOCHHEAD — A member of the Scottish Executive — 5th October 2011

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) (Scotland) Order 2011.

Article3 of that Order made provision to the effect that a notice could be made otherwise than in writing. This was a defect. Article2 of this Order substitutes a new article3 that omits that provision.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c.22; section8 was amended by paragraph1 of schedule2 to the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp11). The functions conferred upon “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86) insofar as within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).