Coypus (Keeping) Regulations 1967
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1967/1873 |
| Year | 1967 |
1967 No. 1873
ANIMALS
DESTRUCTIVE ANIMALS
The Coypus (Keeping) Regulations 196714thDecember 1967
1stJanuary 1968
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Scotland in exercise of the power vested in them by section 2 of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932(a) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, acting jointly, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Regulations:—
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations which may be cited as the Coypus (Keeping) Regulations 1967 shall come into operation on the 1st January 1968.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,
"the Act" means the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932;
"coypu" means the animal of the species designated Myocastor coypus;
"enclosures" includes cages, hutches, pens, sties, stockades, buildings and parts of buildings.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(b) shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Manner of keeping coypus and precautions against escape
3.—(1) Any coypus kept under a licence granted in accordance with section 3 of the Act shall, when not in the course of being transported from place to place, be confined in enclosures so constructed as to prevent their escape.
(2) No coypus shall be transported from place to place except in closed cages or other containers constructed in such a manner and of such materials as to prevent their escape.
Licences
4.—(1) A licence granted in accordance with section 3 of the Act authorising the keeping of coypus shall be in the form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations or in a form to the like effect and subject to the terms and conditions therein mentioned, and shall, subject to section 3(b) of the Act, be in force for a period of 12 months beginning with the date on which it purports to come into effect.
(a) 1932 c. 12.
(b) 1889 c. 63.
(2) On the granting of a licence in accordance with section 3 of the Act there shall be paid to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or to the Secretary of State for Scotland, as the case may be, a fee of £2.
In Witness whereof the official seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 8th December 1967.
Frederick Peart, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
(L.S.)
Given under the seal of the Secretary of State for Scotland on 12th December 1967.
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