The Disease Control (Interim Measures) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2002

Made: at 10.20 am on 10th April 2002

Coming into force: at 12.00 on 10th April 2002

The National Assembly for Wales and the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on them under sections 1, and 8(1) 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 Disease Control (Interim Measures) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2002; it applies to Wales and comes into force at 12 noon on 10th April 2002.

Amendment of the Disease Control (Interim Measures) (Wales) Order 2002

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• (1) The Disease Control (Interim Measures) (Wales) Order 2002[^f00002] shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this article.

• (2) In article 2 in the definition of “hunting” the word “hare” shall be added after “mink”.

• (3) In article 3—

• (a) for sub-paragraph (2)(b)(xiii) and (xiv) there shall be substituted the following—

(xiii) of pigs or cattle to an artificial insemination centre; (xiv) of pigs, sheep, goats, cattle, camelids or deer to a place for veterinary treatment provided (except in the case of pigs) that the animals will be isolated from all other animals there whilst the treatment is carried out; or (xv) of a bull for breeding purposes; or

• (b) for sub-paragraphs (3)(i) to (k) there shall be substituted the following—

(i) a camelid which is returning to those premises from a trekking expedition or which is crossing them in the course of such an expedition; (j) a lamb less than 7 days old in the circumstances described in paragraph (2)(b)(iv) above; (k) cattle which are being returned to those premises from an artificial insemination centre; or (l) sheep, goats, cattle, camelids or deer being returned to those premises from a place for veterinary treatment or of any offspring to which they have given birth whilst there provided those animals and such offspring have been isolated from all other animals whilst at that place.

; and

• (c) at the beginning of paragraph (5) the following words are inserted—

• Except in the cases referred to in paragraphs (2)(b)(xiv), (3)(a)(i) and (3)(l)above,

Signed

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

Jane Hutt — Minister for Health and Social Services — 10.20 on 10th April 2002

Lord Whitty — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — 9th April 2002

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Disease Control (Interim Measures) (Wales) Order 2002 (the “principal Order”) (S.I. 2002/280 (W.32)). It comes into force at mid-day on 10th April 2002.

The amendments made are as follows—

• (a) the definition of hunting in article 2 of the principal Order is amended to include a reference to “hare” (article 2(2));

• (b) movements of sheep, goats, camelids and deer to places for veterinary treatment, provided they will be isolated from other animals whilst there, are added to the list of movements, set out in article 3(2)(b) of the principal Order, which are exempt from the standstill requirement set out and defined in article 3(1)(b) of that Order (the “standstill requirement”) (article 2(3)(a));

• (c) the return of the animals referred to in (b) above from the place for veterinary treatment together with any offspring born there (provided they and the offspring have been isolated from other animals whilst there) is added to the list of movements set out in article 3(3) of the principal Order which are exempt from giving rise to the standstill requirement on the animals' premises of origin; (article 2(3)(b));

• (d) the equivalent existing exemptions with regard to the standstill requirement as they apply to cattle movements to and from places for veterinary treatment are amended so as to require the cattle to be isolated from other animals whilst there (article 2(3)(a) and (b));

• (e) the list of movements set out in article 3(3) of the principal Order which do not give rise to a standstill requirement is also amended so that the passage of a camelid through any premises on a trekking expedition will not give rise to a standstill requirement there (article 2(3)(b));

• (f) the requirement (pursuant to article 3(3)(a)(i) and 3(5) of the principal Order) that pigs be isolated in approved isolation facilities on returning to their premises of origin from artificial insemination centres or places to which they have been moved for breeding or veterinary treatment, if that return is not to give rise to a standstill requirement at those premises, is replaced with a requirement that they be isolated only from all other animals at those premises for 20 days after their return (article 2(3)(c)).

A regulatory appraisal has not been prepared for this Order.

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 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); 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) and were then further transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/ 794).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2002/280 (W.32).

[^f00003]: 1998 c. 38.