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Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 1506

The Specified Animal Pathogens (Amendment) (England) Order 2006

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2006 No. 1506


ANIMALS, ENGLAND


ANIMAL HEALTH

The Specified Animal Pathogens (Amendment) (England) Order 2006


 Made10th June 2006 
 Coming into force4th July 2006 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1, 88(2) and (4) of the Animal Health Act 1981[1], makes the following Order:

Title, commencement and application
    1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Specified Animal Pathogens (Amendment) (England) Order 2006 and comes into force on 4th July 2006.

    (2) This Order applies in England only.

Amendment to the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998
    2.—(1) The Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998[2] is amended as follows.

    (2) For article 4, substitute—

    " Prohibitions in relation to specified animal pathogens
        4.—(1) No person shall have in his possession—

      (a) any animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order; or

      (b) any carrier in which he knows such a pathogen is present,

    except under the authority of a licence issued by the Secretary of State.

        (2) No person shall deliberately introduce into any animal any animal pathogen specified in either Part 1 or Part 2 of that Schedule, except under the authority of a licence issued by the Secretary of State.

        (3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to article 5.

        (4) If any person has in his possession any thing in respect of which he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of that Schedule is present, and does not have a licence in respect of that pathogen, he shall forthwith notify a veterinary inspector.".

    (3) For article 5(2)(a), substitute —

      " (a) permitted to be placed on the market under the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005[3] or the Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations etc) Regulations 1994[4];".

    (4) For article 5(2)(c), substitute —

      " (c) in respect of which an animal test certificate has been issued in accordance with regulation 8(3) of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005[5].".

    (5) For the Schedule, substitute the text in the Schedule to this Order.


Ben Bradshaw
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

10th June 2006



SCHEDULE
Article 2(5)





    " SCHEDULE
    Articles 3 and 4


    Specified animal pathogens




    PART 1

    African horse sickness virus

    African swine fever virus

    Aujeszky's disease virus

    Avian influenza viruses which are —

      (a) uncharacterised;

      (b) Type A viruses which have an intravenous pathogenicity index in six-week-old chickens of greater than 1.2; or

      (c) Type A viruses H5 or H7 subtype for which nucleotide sequencing has demonstrated multiple basic amino acids at the cleavage site of haemagglutinin

    Babesia bovis, Babesia bigemina and Babesia caballi

    Bacillus anthracis

    Bluetongue virus

    Bovine leukosis virus

    Brucella abortus, Brucella melitensis, Brucella ovis and Brucella suis

    Burkholderia mallei

    Classical swine fever virus

    Cochliomyia hominivorax

    Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses

    Echinococcus multilocularis and Echinococcus granulosus

    Ehrlichia ruminantium

    Equine infectious anaemia virus

    Foot and mouth disease virus

    Hendra disease virus

    Histoplasma farciminosum

    Japanese encephalitis virus

    Lumpy skin disease virus

    Mycoplasma agalactiae, Mycoplasma capricolum sub species capripneumoniae, Mycoplasma mycoides sub species mycoides SC and mycoides LC variants and Mycoplasma mycoides var capri

    Newcastle disease (avian paramyxovirus type 1) viruses which are —

      (a) uncharacterised; or

      (b) have an intracerebral pathogenicity index in one-day-old chicks of 0.4 or more, when not less than 10 million 50% egg infectious doses (EID50) are administered to each bird in the test

    Nipah disease virus

    Peste des petits ruminants virus

    Rabies virus and all viruses of the genus Lyssavirus

    Rift Valley Fever virus

    Rinderpest virus

    St Louis equine encephalomyelitis virus

    Sheep and goat pox virus

    Swine vesicular disease virus

    Teschen disease virus

    Theileria annulata, Theileria equi and Theileria parva

    Trichinella spiralis

    Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma congolense, Trypanosoma equiperdum, Trypanosoma evansi, Trypanosoma simiae and Trypanosoma vivax

    Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus

    Vesicular stomatitis virus

    West Nile virus



    PART 2

    The live virus causing viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits"


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order amends the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/463). This Order—

    (a) adds Nipah disease virus, West Nile virus and St Louis equine encephalomyelitis virus to Part 1 of the Schedule;

    (b) updates certain terms in the Schedule with those now more commonly used by the scientific community;

    (c) updates certain references to veterinary medicines legislation; and

    (d) clarifies article 4 of the Order as to which controls apply to pathogens in each Part of the Schedule.

A draft of this Order was notified to the European Commission in accordance with Directive 98/34/EC (OJ No L 204 21/07/98 p37), as amended by Directive 98/48/EC (OJ L217 05/08/98 p18).

A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business is available from the Information Resource Centre, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Lower Ground Floor, Ergon House, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR.

Notes:

[1] 1981 c. 22. Powers of the Secretary of State under the Act were previously exercised by "the Ministers" (see section 86(1)). Functions of the Ministers, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State of Scotland and Wales in relation to England, were transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by S.I. 1999/3141. Functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were transferred to the Secretary of State by S.I. 2002/794.back

[2] S.I. 1998/463.back

[3] S.I. 2005/2745.back

[4] S.I. 1994/3144.back

[5] S.I. 2005/2745.back


ISBN 0 11 074738 0


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