The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (England) Order 2006 No. 182

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 182

ANIMALS, ENGLAND

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (England) Order 2006

Made

30th January 2006

Coming into force

23rd February 2006

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 2, 7(1), 8(1), 13, 15(3), 15(4), 17(1), 23, 25, 26(1), 26(2), 28, 34(7), 38(1), 65A(3), 83(2), 87(2) and 87(5) of the Animal Health Act 1981(1) and now vested in her(2):

(1)

1981 c. 22. Amended by the Animal Health Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3293), the Animal Health Act 2002, c. 42 and the Animal Health Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3475). Section 65A was inserted by the Animal Health Act 2002, section 10.

(2)

Functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86 of that Act) are now exercisable by the Secretary of State. They were transferred, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141) and were then further transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).