Title and commencement1.
These Order may be cited as the Specified Diseases (Notification and Slaughter) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.
Application of section 22 of the Animal Health Act 19812.
(1)
Section 32 of the Animal Health Act 1981, which enables the Minister to cause animals to be slaughtered on account of disease, shall apply to the following diseases–
African horse sickness
Bluetongue
Brucellosis caused by Brucella melitensis
Contagious agalactia
Contagious epidydimitis
Epizootic haemorrhagic virus disease
Goat pox
Lumpy Skin Disease
Peste des Petits Ruminants
Rift Valley Fever
Sheep pox
Teschen Disease
Vesicular Stomatitis
(2)
For the purposes of this article the definition of “animal” in the Animal Health Act 1981 is hereby extended to include any kind of mammal except man.
Amendment of the Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 19913.
(1)
(2)
In Article 2(b) of the Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1991 the words “column 1 of” shall be omitted.
(3)
““specified disease” means a disease specified in the Schedule to this Order;”
Amendment of the Diseases of Animals (Ascertainment of Disease) Order 19854.
““Disease” means African horse sickness, Aujeszky’s disease, Brucellosis caused by Brucella melitensis, cattle plague, contagious agalactia, contagious epidydimitis, dourine, enzootic bovine leukosis, equine infectious anaemia, equine encephalomyelitis, pleuro-pnemonia, rabies, sheep-pox, swine fever and Teschen disease;”.
Revocations and consequential amendments5.
The Orders referred to in Schedule 2 to this Order are hereby revoked or amended as specified in that Schedule.
In witness thereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on