The Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (Wales) (No 2) Order 2006

Scope of the Act and of this Order E+W

3.—(1) For the purposes of the Act in its application to avian influenza and to this Order—

(a) the definition of “poultry” in section 87(4) of the Act is extended to include all birds;

(b) the definition of “animals” in section 87(1) of the Act is extended to include all mammals, except man; and

(c) the definition of “disease” in section 88(1) of the Act is extended to include any infection in mammals caused by influenza virus of avian origin.

(2) Section 32 of the Act applies to any infection in mammals caused by influenza virus of avian origin and references in this Order to that section are to that section as it applies to such infection.

(3) References in this Order to paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Act are to that paragraph as it applies to avian influenza.

(4) This Order does not apply to anything done in accordance with a licence under [F1 the Specified Animal Pathogens (Wales) Order 2008].

(5) This Order does not apply to quarantine centres and quarantine facilities approved under [F2 Article 6 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 139/2013 laying down animal health conditions for imports of certain birds into the Union and the quarantine conditions thereof].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in art. 3(4) substituted (17.12.2018) by The Environment, Planning and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1216), regs. 1(3), 29(3)(a)

F2 Words in art. 3(5) substituted (17.12.2018) by The Environment, Planning and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1216), regs. 1(3), 29(3)(b)