Exported Animals Protection Order 1964
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1964 No. 704
ANIMALS
DISEASES OF ANIMALS
The Exported Animals Protection Order 19647thMay 1964
8thJune 1964
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 20, 23 and 85 of the Diseases of Animals Act 1950(a), and section 11 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954(b), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby order as follows:—
Citation, commencement and revocation
1.—(1) This Order, which may be cited as the Exported Animals Protection Order 1964, shall come into operation on 8th June 1964.
(2) The Exported Cattle Protection Order 1957(c), and the Exported Cattle Protection (Amendment) Order 1957(d) are hereby revoked.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—
"the Act" means the Diseases of Animals Act 1950, as amended or extended by any other enactment;
"animals" means cattle, sheep and swine;
"approved premises" has the meaning assigned to it by Article 3(1) of this Order;
"cattle" means bulls, cows, oxen, heifers and calves;
"inspector" means a person appointed to be an inspector for the purposes of the Act by the Minister or by a local authority and, when used in relation to a person appointed by the Minister, includes a veterinary inspector;
"local authority" means a local authority for the purposes of the Act;
"master" includes any person having the charge or command of a vessel, except the pilot;
"Minister" and "Ministry" means the Minister and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food respectively;
"pilot", in relation to an aircraft, means the pilot or other person having the command or charge of the aircraft;
"rest period" has the meaning assigned to it by Article 3(2) of this Order.
(a) 14 Geo. 6. c. 36.
(b) 2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. 39.
(c) S.I. 1957/170 (1957 I, p. 152).
(d) S.I. 1957/1254 (1957 I, p. 156).
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(a) shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and as if this Order and the Orders hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.
Provisions for the purposes of protecting exported animals from unnecessary suffering during carriage by sea or air
3.—(1) No person shall ship or cause or permit to be shipped, any animals by sea or by air from any place in Great Britain to any place outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland, unless immediately before being loaded in the vessel or aircraft in which they are to be carried, they have been rested by detention for the rest period defined by the succeeding paragraph of this Article on premises (hereinafter referred to as "approved premises") which are:—
(a) at or near the place of loading;
(b) provided with suitable protection against the weather; and
(c) approved in writing for that purpose, in England and Wales by the Minister or in Scotland by the Secretary of State, which approval may be granted subject to such conditions as to the duration of the approval and otherwise as the Minister or Secretary of State may see fit to impose, and in particular subject to a condition (in addition to the limitations contained in Article 4(b)(v) hereof) limiting the total number of each species of animal to be rested on the premises at any one time.
(2) The rest period shall be a period of not less than ten hours which shall include at least three consecutive hours between sunrise and...
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