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Statutory Instrument 1993 No. 1685

The Diseases of Animals (Seizure) Order 1993

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1993 No. 1685

ANIMALS

The Diseases of Animals (Seizure) Order 1993

Made2nd July 1993
Coming into force31st July 1993

    The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 35(1)and 36(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981[1], as, within the meaning of section 86 of that Act, the Ministers, and in respect of those powers in relation to brucellosis, brucella melitensis and tuberculosis, the appropriate Minister, 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 Diseases of Animals (Seizure) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 31st July 1993.
    Extension of powers of seizure
        2.—(1)  An inspector or veterinary inspector shall have power to seize anything (other than a live animal) whether animate or inanimate, by or by means of which it appears to him that a disease to which section 35(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981 applies might be carried or transmitted.

        (2)  An inspector or veterinary inspector exercising powers under this Order shall dispose of the thing seized by destruction, burial, treatment or such other method of disposal as he thinks expedient to prevent the spread of disease.
    Compensation
        3.    In addition to the compensation payable by the Minister under section 36(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981, compensation shall be paid by him for carcases seized under this Order for the purpose of preventing Swine Vesicular Disease.
    Revocations
        4.    The following Orders are revoked—
      the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) Order 1964[2];

      the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) (Amendment) Order 1972[3];

      the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) (Amendment) Order 1983[4];


In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on


Gillian Shephard

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

25th June 1993.

Hector Monro

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

29th June 1993

John Redwood

Secretary of State for Wales

2nd July 1993





EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)
    This Order extends the powers of inspectors to seize things (other than live animals) by means of which diseases which attract the slaughter provisions of the Animal Health Act 1981 may be spread.
    These diseases are:
    African Horse Sickness
    African Swine Fever
    Aujeszky's Disease
    Blue Tongue
    Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
    Cattle Plague (Rinderpest)
    Classical Swine Fever
    Contagious agalactia
    Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia
    Contagious Epididymitis
    Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
    Epizootic Haemorrhagic Virus Disease
    Foot and Mouth Disease in ruminants and swine
    Fowl Cholera
    Fowl Paralysis
    Fowl Pest in any of its forms, including Newcastle Disease and Fowl plague
    Fowl Pox
    Fowl Typhoid
    Goat Pox
    Infectious Bronchitis in poultry
    Infectious Laryngotracheitis in poultry
    Lumpy Skin Disease
    Peste des Petits Ruminants
    Psitticosis or Ornithosis
    Pullorum Disease in poultry
    Rabies
    Rift Valley Fever
    Sheep Pox
    Swine Vesicular Disease
    Teschen disease
    Tuberculosis in cattle
    Tuberculosis in deer
    Vesicular Stomatitis.
    In addition to the above, the slaughter provisions apply to any poultry or animals infected with organisms of the brucella or salmonella genera.


ISBN 0 11 034685 8



Notes:

[1] 1981 c. 22. Sections 35 and 36 were amended by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 (c. 40) section 1.

[2] S.I. 1964/1255.

[3] S.I. 1972/2041.

[4] S.I. 1983/346.

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