(1)No notice served after the commencement of this Act under section ninety-eight of the M1Agriculture Act 1947 (which enables the Minister to require the destruction of animals to which that section applies) shall require any person to take any steps which he could have been required to take by a notice served under section four of this Act; but nothing in this subsection shall affect the provisions of section one hundred and one of the said Act of 1947 as to the rendering by the Minister of assistance in the destruction of animals to which the said section ninety-eight applies and the recovery by the Minister of any charge made in respect of any such assistance.
(2)The purposes for which the Minister may exercise his powers under the said section one hundred and one shall include the rendering of assistance in the prevention or treatment of any infestation.
(3)In the application of this section to Scotland, for references to sections ninety-eight and one hundred and one of the M2Agriculture Act 1947, there shall respectively be substituted references to sections thirty-nine and forty-two of the M3Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948.