Foot and Mouth Disease (Infected Areas Restrictions) (Amendment) Order 1969
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1969/1445 |
| Year | 1969 |
1969 No. 1445
ANIMALS
DISEASES OF ANIMALS
The Foot and Mouth Disease (Infected Areas Restrictions) (Amendment) Order 19697thOctober 1969
20thOctober 1969
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers vested in them under sections 1, 11, 20 and 85 of the Diseases of Animals Act 1950(a) (as read with the Transfer of Functions (Animal Health) Order 1955(b)), and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby order as follows:—
Citation, extent and commencement
1. This order, which may by cited as the Foot and Mouth Disease (Infected Areas Restricitions) (Amendment Order) 1969, applies to England, Wales and Scotland, and shall come into operation on 20th October 1969.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In this order "the principal order" means the Foot and Mouth Disease (Infected Areas Restrictions) Order of 1938 (as amended)(c).
(2) References in this order to any enactment or regulations are (unless the context otherwise requires) references thereto as from time to time amended or replaced.
(3) The Interpretation Act 1889(d) applies to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
AMENDMENTS OF PRINCIPAL ORDER
General Amendments
3.—(1) Any reference in the principal order to a certification centre approved under the provisions of Part II of the Livestock Industry Act 1937(e) shall be construed as if it were a reference to a certification centre as defined for the purposes of any order providing for guarantee payments to be made in respect of fatstock (as therein defined) pursuant to Part I of the Agriculture Act 1957(f).
(2) For any reference in Articles 3, 4 and 6 of the principal order to an inspector of the Local Authority or to an inspector of the Local Authority of a specified district, there shall be substituted a reference to an inspector, and the form of licence set out in Schedule 1 to the principal order shall be amended accordingly.
(a) 1950 c. 36. For change of title of the Minister see S.I. 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200).
(b) S.I. 1955/958 (1955 I, p. 1184).
(c) S.R. & O. 1938/1434 (Rev. II, p. 528: 1938 I, p. 155):
S.I. 1956/101, 1967/1839 (1956 I, p. 175; 1967 III, p. 4904).
(d) 1889 c. 63.
(e) 1937 c. 50.
(f) 1957 c. 57.
Specific Amendments
4. Article 2 (prohibition on movement of animals out of Infected Area) of the principal order shall be amended by the addition at the end thereof of the words "except an animal moved for the purpose of slaughter, accompanied by and in accordance with the conditions of a licence issued by an inspector, to a slaughterhouse in an Infected Area contiguous to the Infected Area in which the animal is at the time of the issue of the licence."
5. Article 4 (movement within Infected Area) of the principal order shall be amended as follows:—
(a) by the insertion in paragraph (2) thereof after the words "Livestock Industry Act, 1937", in paragraph (3) thereof after the words "certification centre" on each occasion when they occur, and in paragraph (5) thereof after the words "certification centre", of the words "or licensed collecting centre";
(b) by the insertion in paragraph (5) thereof, after the words "shall be granted" of the words "under this Article".
6. Article 5 (Markets and Sales and Gatherings of Animals for Certification purposes in Infected Area) of the principal order shall be amended as follows:—
(a) by the insertion in paragraph (1) thereof, after the words "gathering of animals", in paragraph 2(b) thereof, after the words "may be held", and in paragraph (3) thereof, after the words "gathering of animals" where they first occur, of the words "at a licensed collecting centre or";
(b) in paragraph (2) thereof, sub-paragraph (c) (which permits a sale of animals to be held under licence on a farm not less than two miles from any Infected Place) shall be omitted;
(c) by the insertion in paragraph (4) thereof, (which requires markets, fairs etc. at which animals are to be exposed to be notified to a veterinary inspector), after the words "to enable arrangements for such examination to be made" of the words "the licence shall specify the hours within which animals may be accepted and".
7. At the beginning of paragraph (1) of article 6 (forms and conditions of movement licences) of the principal order there shall be inserted the following words:—
"Except where the licence is (in accordance with article 14 of this order) for the direct movement of animals through an Infected Area by motorway from a place outside the area to another place outside the area".
8. Article 7 (disposal of slaughterhouse manure and refuse) of the principal order shall be amended as follows:—
(a) in the heading thereto the words "manure and refuse" shall be omitted and the word "products" substituted therefor;
(b) by the omission of the first sentence of that article and the substitution therefor of the following:—
"(1) No carcase or animal product (other than a carcase or animal product intended for human consumption) or manure, slurry or litter shall be moved from a slaughterhouse or knacker's yard...
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