Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 3302
The Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 (Amendment) Regulations 1992
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1992 No. 3302
ANIMALS
The Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 (Amendment) Regulations 1992
| Laid before Parliament | 30th December 1992 |
| Coming into force | 20th January 1993 |
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State being Ministers designated[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] in relation to the common agricultural policy of the Economic Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), hereby make the following Regulations:
Title and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 20th January 1993.
Amendment of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932
2. The provisions of section 11 of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932[3] (interpretation) shall become subsection (1) of that section and the following subsection shall be added after that subsection—" (2) Any reference in this Act to importation into Great Britain does not include a reference to importation from a member State.".
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on
21st December 1992.
(L.S.)
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Hector Monro
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
23rd December 1992
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)These Regulations amend the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 so as to remove from the scope of the Act importation of destructive animals from a member State (regulation 2).
The Regulations implement the United Kingdom's obligations under article 30 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community so far as it concerns the importation into Great Britain of destructive non-indigenous animals.
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Notes:[1] S.I. 1972/1811
[2] 1972 c. 68.
[3] 1932 c. 12.
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