1996 No. 963
ANIMALSANIMAL HEALTH
The Specified Bovine Material Order 1996
Made 28th March 1996
Coming into force 29th March 1996

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 8(1) and 72(a) of the Animal Health Act 1981, as applied by the Zoonoses Order 1988, and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 11 of that Act, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
1981 c. 22. See section 86(1) for a definition of “the Ministers” and “the Minster”.
S.I.1988/2264, by virtue of which bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been designated as a disease of animals which constitutes a risk within section 29 of the Animal Health Act 1981. The Order applies sections 1 and 8(1) of the 1981 Act in relation to that disease.