The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Amendment Order 2001

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 63

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Amendment Order 2001

Made

4th March 2001

Coming into force at 7.00 p.m. on

4th March 2001

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by article 17(1) of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Amendment Order 2001 and shall come into force on 4th March 2001 at 7.00 p.m.

Amendment of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Declaratory Orders

2.—(1) In Schedule 2 to each of the Orders specified in paragraph (2) below, there shall be inserted after paragraph 2(b), as follows:–

“(ba) no person shall transport animals through the infected area, except if the animals are transiting through that area by motorway, trunk road or railway;”.

(2) The Orders referred to in paragraph (1) above are–

(a) the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Order 2001(2); and

(b) the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory (No. 2) Order 2001(3).

D J CRAWLEY

A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers

Pentland House Edinburgh

4th March 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the two Scottish Declaratory Orders declaring infected areas under Part III of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/1950) in order to permit the transit of animals through those infected areas by motorway, trunk road or railway. These amendments are in consequence of articles 4 and 5 of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Declaratory (Controlled Area) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/60).

(1)

S.I. 1983/1950, as amended by S.I. 1993/3119, 1995/2922 and, as regards Scotland, by S.S.I. 2001/52 and 2001/55.

(2)

S.S.I. 2001/56.

(3)

S.S.I. 2001/59