The Muntjac Keeping (Scotland) Order 2011

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2011 No. 172

Animals

Destructive Animals

The Muntjac Keeping (Scotland) Order 2011

Approved by the Scottish Parliament

Made

2nd February 2011

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

2nd February 2011

Coming into force

1st July 2011

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 10 of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932(1), and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 10 of that Act the Scottish Ministers are satisfied with respect to the non-indigenous mammalian species(2) which are the subject of this Order that by reason of their destructive habits it is desirable to control the keeping of them and to destroy any such which may be at large.

(1)

1932 c.12. The power in section 1 is extended in respect of species other than the muskrat by section 10 of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 (“the 1932 Act”). Section 11 (interpretation) was amended by S.I. 1992/3302. The style and title of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries was changed to that of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by S.I. 1955/554. The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).

(2)

See section 10(2) of the 1932 Act for the definition of “non-indigenous mammalian species”.