Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 2809

ANIMALS, ENGLAND

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Movement of Animals (Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) Order 2007

Made

at 1.00 p.m. on 25th September 2007

Coming into force

at 3.00 p.m. on 25th September 2007

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 8(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981(1) and now vested in him(2).

(1)

1981 c. 22.

(2)

Functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Minister” and “the Ministers” are now exercisable by the Secretary of State. Functions of “the Ministers” 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). Functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were then further transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).