Fur Farming (Prohibition) Act 2000 (Commencement) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 3854 (C.126)

ANIMALS, ENGLAND AND WALES

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Act 2000 (Commencement) Order 2001

Made

3rd December 2001

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 7(2) of the Fur Farming (Prohibition) Act 2000(1), makes the following Order—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Fur Farming (Prohibition) Act 2000 (Commencement) Order 2001.

2.  Sections 1 to 4 of the Fur Farming (Prohibition) Act 2000 shall come into force on 1st January 2003.

Elliot Morley

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

3rd December 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force, on 1st January 2003, sections 1 to 4 of the Fur Farming (Prohibition) Act 2000 (which concerns offences relating to fur farming, forfeiture orders, the effect of forfeiture orders and powers of entry and enforcement).

From that date, it will be illegal to keep animals solely or primarily for slaughter for the value of their fur or for breeding progeny for such slaughter.

Sections 6 and 7 of the Act (interpretation and short title, commencement and extent) came into force on the date on which the Act received Royal Assent (i.e. on 23rd November 2000). Section 5 (which concerns compensation for existing businesses came into force two months later (i.e. on 23rd January 2001).

There are no provisions of the Act for which a commencement date remains to be appointed under section 7.

(1)

2000 c. 33.