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Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 3159
The Specified Diseases (Notification and Slaughter) Order 1992
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1992 No. 3159
ANIMALS
ANIMAL HEALTH
The Specified Diseases (Notification and Slaughter) Order 1992
| Coming into force | 1st January 1993 |
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 on them by sections 1, 15(4). 32(2), 87(2) and 88(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981[1] and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:— Title and commencement
1. These Order may be cited as the Specified Diseases (Notification and Slaughter) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993. Application of section 22 of the Animal Health Act 1981
2.—(1) Section 32 of the Animal Health Act 1981, which enables the Minister to cause animals to be slaughtered on account of disease, shall apply to the following diseases-
Brucellosis caused by Brucella melitensis Epizootic haemorrhagic virus disease Peste des Petits Ruminants
(2) For the purposes of this article the definition of "animal" in the Animal Health Act 1981 is hereby extended to include any kind of mammal except man.
Amendment of the Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1991
3.—(1) For the Schedule to the Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1991[2] there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 of this Order.
(2) In Article 2(b) of the Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1991 the words "column 1 of" shall be omitted.
(3) In Article 3 of the Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1991 for the definition of "specified disease" there shall be substituted the following-""specified disease" means a disease specified in the Schedule to this Order;"
Amendment of the Diseases of Animals (Ascertainment of Disease) Order 1985
4. In Article 3 of the Diseases of Animals (Ascertainment of Disease) Order 1985[3], for the definition of "disease" there shall be substituted the following-""Disease" means African horse sickness, Aujeszky's disease, Brucellosis caused by Brucella melitensis, cattle plague, contagious agalactia, contagious epidydimitis, dourine, enzootic bovine leukosis, equine infectious anaemia, equine encephalomyelitis, pleuro-pnemonia, rabies, sheep-pox, swine fever and Teschen disease;".
Revocations and consequential amendments
5. The Orders referred to in Schedule 2 to this Order are hereby revoked or amended as specified in that Schedule.
In witness thereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
10th December 1992
Hector Munro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
10th December 1992
David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
10th December 1992
Notes:[1] 1981 c. 22; see section 86(1)(c) for the definition of "the Ministers".
[2] S.I. 1991/1155.
[3] S.I. 1985/1765
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