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Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 2264
The Zoonoses Order 1988
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1988 No. 2264
ANIMALS
ANIMAL HEALTH
The Zoonoses Order 1988
| Coming into force | 22nd December 1988 |
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 7(1), 8(1), 15(4), 29(1) and (2), 72, 86(1) and 88(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order: Title and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Zoonoses Order 1988 and shall come into force on 22nd December 1988. Interpretation
2. In this Order —
"the Act" means the Animal Health Act 1981;
"animals" means bovine animals, sheep, goats, deer and all other ruminating animals;
"the Ministers" means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly. Designation of bovine spongiform encephalopathy for the purposes of section 29
3.—(1) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, being a disease of animals which, in the opinion of the Ministers, constitutes a risk within the meaning of section 29 of the Act, is hereby designated for the purposes of that section.
(2) The provisions of the Act listed in the Schedule to this Order shall apply in relation to bovine spongiform encephalopathy with a view to reducing the risk to human health from that disease.684
Amendment of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1988
4. In article 2 of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1988[2] the words "in its application to this Order" shall be omitted.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on
21st December 1988.
Trumpington
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Sanderson of Bowden
Minister of State, Scottish Office
20th December 1988
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
20th December 1988
Notes:[1] 1981 c. 22; section 86(1) contains a definition of "the Ministers" relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which this Order is made.
[2] S.I. 1988/1039, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.
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