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Statutory Instruments
Animals, England
Animal Health
Made
21st January 2010
Coming into force
15th March 2010
The Secretary of State, in whom the powers conferred by sections 1, 8(1) and 83(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981 M1 are now vested M2, makes the following Order in exercise of those powers and the powers conferred by paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972 M3.
The Secretary of State considers it expedient that references to the Community instrument implemented by these Regulations should have effect as references to that instrument as amended from time to time.
Marginal Citations
M2Functions 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 (SI 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). The functions of the Secretary of State under the Animal Health Act 1981 are, so far as are exercisable in relation to Wales, vested in the Welsh Ministers. Those functions were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales constituted by the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) article 2; see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Animal Health Act 1981 (c. 22). By virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers immediately after the end of the initial period as defined by section 161(5) of that Act. The functions of the Secretary of State under the Animal Health Act 1981 (c. 22) are, so far as they are exercisable in relation to Scotland, vested in the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).
1. This Order—
(a)may be cited as the Poultry Compartments (England) Order 2010;
(b)applies in England; and
(c)comes into force on 15th March 2010.
2. The Secretary of State is the competent authority for the purposes of Commission Regulation EC (No) 616/2009 implementing Council Directive 2005/94/EC as regards the approval of poultry compartments and other captive bird compartments with respect to avian influenza and additional preventive biosecurity measures in such compartments M4 as amended from time to time.
Marginal Citations
M4OJ No L 181, 14.7.2009, p 16.
3. Applications for approval of compartments must be made on the forms provided by the Secretary of State on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs website.
4.—(1) An inspector may, for any purpose relating to this Order—
(a)enter any premises [F1approved] as a compartment under this Order and any administrative site which contains records relevant to the [F2approval] of a site as a compartment;
(b)require the keeper to produce or copy any document or record;
(c)remove and retain a copy of any document or record;
(d)have access to, and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been used in connection with records;
(e)where a record is kept by means of a computer, require the record to be produced in a form which may be taken away;
(f)be accompanied by a representative of the European Commission or any people or things the inspector considers necessary.
(2) A person required to do anything by an inspector acting under paragraph (1) must, unless they have reasonable cause, do so without delay.
(3) For the purposes of this article an inspector means any person approved as an inspector under the Animal Health Act 1981.
Textual Amendments
F1Word in art. 4(1)(a) substituted (24.12.2012) by The Agriculture, Animals, Environment and Food etc. (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2897), arts. 1(1), 35(a)
F2Word in art. 4(1)(a) substituted (24.12.2012) by The Agriculture, Animals, Environment and Food etc. (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2897), arts. 1(1), 35(b)
5.—(1) The Secretary of State must inspect all production sites before approving them as a compartment or part of a compartment.
(2) Once production sites are approved as compartments the Secretary of State must reinspect those sites at intervals determined by an assessment of risk associated with each premises.
(3) When inspecting production sites the Secretary of State must also inspect administrative sites which hold records relevant to the approval of these production sites as compartments or parts of compartments.
Jim Fitzpatrick
Minister of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order implements Commission Regulation EC (No) 616/2009 which makes provision for the recognition of poultry compartments which meet high standards of biosecurity (OJ No L 181, 14.7.2009, p 16). Since application for recognition is voluntary the only sanction for failure to comply with the requirements of this Order is removal of certification as a compartment.
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs website is at www.defra.gov.uk.
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