The Fish Health (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Explanatory Note

(This Note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Fish Health Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”) so as to implement Council Directive 93/54/EEC (OJ No. L 175, 19.7.93, p. 34).

The Regulations:

(a) amend regulation 3 of the principal Regulations so that its provisions are without prejudice to certain provisions of the Diseases of Fish (Control) Regulations 1994 (regulation 3);

(b) provide for the amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations so that the provisions shall not apply to tropical fish kept permanently in aquaria (regulation 4);

(c) insert a new regulation 9A in the principal Regulations which provides for quarantine of certain fish, molluscs and crustaceans from the wild (regulation 5);

(d) provide for the substitution of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (regulation 7);

(e) provide for the substitution of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (regulation 8);

(f) provide for the substitution of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (regulation 9);

(g) provide for the amendment of Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations (regulation 10);

(h) revise the definition of “Directive 91/67/EEC” (regulation 2(a));

(i) insert a definition of “Directive 93/53/EEC” (regulation 2(b));

(j) update the reference in regulation 16(1) of the principal Regulations to the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations 1992(regulation 6).