The Foot-And-Mouth Disease (Ascertainment of Value) (Wales) (No.2) Order 2001

Made: 6.45 p.m. on 23rd March 2001

Coming into force: 7.00 p.m. on 23rd March 2001

The National Assembly for Wales and the Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1 and 34(7) 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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This Order may be cited as the Foot-And-Mouth Disease (Ascertainment of Value) (Wales)(No2) Order 2001; it applies to Wales and comes into force at 7.00 pm on 23rd March 2001.

Ascertainment of value of an animal

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• (1) For the purposes of paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 3 to the Animal Health Act 1981 the value of an animal slaughtered by the Minister because of foot-and-mouth disease shall be in accordance with this article and not the Diseases of Animals (Ascertainment of Compensation) Order 1959[^f00002].

• (2) If the owner decides that he wishes to have the animal valued by a valuer, the value is the amount determined in writing by a valuer appointed jointly by the Minister and the owner of the animal or, failing such appointment, by a valuer appointed by the President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

• (3) If the owner does not wish to have the animal valued by a valuer, the value is the amount set out for that animal in the Schedule.

• (4) The valuer shall be paid by the Minister.

Revocation

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The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Ascertainment of Value) (Wales) Order 2001[^f00003] is revoked.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998 [^f00004]

Michael German — Assembly Secretary — Signed at 18.30 on 23rd March 2001

Helene Hayman — Minister of State Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — Signed at 6.45 p.m. on 23rd March 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes and re-makes the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Ascertainment of Value) (Wales) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1127 (W.56)). A value for cull cattle is now provided and payments for steers, heifers and young bulls are restricted to clean cattle under 30 months old.

A Regulatory Appraisal has not been prepared.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1959/1335.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2001/1127 (W.56).

[^f00004]: 1998 c. 38.