The Avian Influenza (H5N1) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Order 2007

Made: at 3.44p.m. on 28 November 2007

Coming into force: at 3.59p.m. on 28 November 2007

The Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8 of the Animal Health Act 1981[^f00001] and now vested in them[^f00002].

Title and commencement

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This title of this Order is the Avian Influenza (H5N1) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Order 2007; it applies in relation to Wales and comes into force at 3.59p.m. on 28 November 2007.

Amendment

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• (1) After article 14(2)(j) of the Avian Influenza (H5N1 in Poultry) (Wales) Order 2006[^f00003]) insert-

(ja) raw petfood, within the meaning of paragraph 48 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002, which complies with the requirements in Part B of Chapter II of Annex VIII to that Regulation;

• (2) After paragraph 13(2)(j) of Schedule 1 to the Avian Influenza (H5N1 in Wild Birds) (Wales) Order 2006[^f00004] insert—

(ja) raw petfood, within the meaning of paragraph 48 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002, which complies with the requirements in Part B of Chapter II of Annex VIII to that Regulation;

Signed

Elin Jones — Minister for Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers — 28 November 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Avian Influenza (H5N1 in Poultry) (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/3309 (W.299)) and the Avian Influenza (H5N1 in Wild Birds) (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/3310 (W.300)) to add raw petfood to the lists of by-products which can be moved under the authority of a licence issued by a veterinary inspector under each Order.

A regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument.

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2006/3309 (W.299) & 2006/3310 (W.300) and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c. 22.

[^f00002]: Functions of the Minister and the Secretary of State transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 1999/672 and S.I. 2004/3044. Functions of the National Assembly for Wales transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 of the Government of Wales Act 2006.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2006/3309 (W.299).

[^f00004]: S.I. 2006/3310 (W.300).