The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 4) (Amendment) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 1241

ANIMALS, ENGLAND

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 4) (Amendment) Order 2001

Made

at 3.59 p.m. on 28th March 2001

Coming into force at 7.00 p.m. on 28th March 2001

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, acting in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1, 7, 8, 15(4), 17(1), 23, 25 38(1) and 83(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, makes the following Order:

Title, extent and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 4) (Amendment) Order 2001; it extends to England and shall come into force at 7.00 p.m. on 28th March 2001.

Amendment to the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 4) Order 2001

2.  For article 3 of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 4) Order 2001(2) there shall be substituted the following article:

“3.   Any restrictions on access to land (including common land, unenclosed or waste land), footpaths or rights of way imposed under Part IV of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 before its amendment by the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 4) Order 2001 shall continue to have effect until revoked in whole or in part by—

(a) a declaration of the Minister, published in such manner as he sees fit; or

(b) a declaration by the local authority, published in such manner as it shall see fit.”

Signed at 3.59 p.m.

Hayman

Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

on 28th March 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which extends to England, amends the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 4) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1078) so as to permit the Minister or a local authority by declaration to revoke in whole or in part any restrictions on access to land, footpaths or rights of way imposed under Part IV of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/1950, as amended) before the coming into force of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 4) Order 2001.

(1)

1981 c. 22. See section 86(1) for the definitions of “the Ministers” and “the Minister”. Functions of “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales in relation to England, were transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141).

(2)

S.I. 2001/1078.