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Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932
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10 Power to extend provisions of Act to other destructive non-indigenous animals. E+W+S
(1)If at any time the Minister and the Secretary of State are satisfied with respect to animals of any non-indigenous mammalian species that by reason of their destructive habits it is desirable to prohibit or control the importation or keeping of them and to destroy any which may be at large[F1or keep under review whether any which may be at large should be destroyed], they may make with respect to animals of that species any such order as they are empowered by subsection (1) of section one of this Act to make with respect to musk rats, and thereupon all the provisions of this Act shall apply in relation to animals of that species as they apply in relation to musk rats, subject, however, to the modification that in subsection (1) of section seven of this Act the words “and on the twenty-fourth day of June,“nineteen hundred and thirty-one” shall be omitted and subject also to such exceptions and other modifications, if any as may be specified in the order:
Provided that, notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of section one of this Act, an order made under this section shall be of no effect until a resolution approving it has been passed by each House of Parliament.
[F2(1A)The power in subsection (1) (like the power in subsection (1) of section one of this Act) includes power to revoke or amend an order made under that subsection.]
(2)In this section the expression “non-indigenous mammalian species” means a mammalian species which at the date of the commencement of this Act was not established in a wild state in Great Britain, or had only become so established during the preceding fifty years:
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any species which was at the said date commonly kept in Great Britain in a domesticated state.
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F1Words in s. 10(1) inserted (26.5.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(q), Sch. 13 para. 1(2)
F2S. 10(1A) inserted (26.5.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(q), Sch. 13 para. 1(3)
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C1Functions of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under s. 10 now exercisable by that Minister and Secretary of State jointly (W.): S.I. 1969/388
C2S. 10: Functions of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State for Scotland or the Secretary of State for Wales transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141, arts. 2(1)(5), 3, Sch.
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