Title, application and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Disease Control (Interim Measures) (England) (Amendment) Order 2002; it applies to England and shall come into force on 28th March 2002.

Amendment of the Disease Control (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2002

2. —(1)The Disease Control (Interim Measures) (England) Order 2002( 2 ) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this article.

(2) In article 2 in the definition of “hunting” the word “, hare” shall be added after “mink”.

(3) In article 3—

(a) for sub-paragraph (2)(b)(xiii) and (xiv) there shall be substituted the following—

“ (xiii) of pigs or cattle to an artificial insemination centre;

(xiv) of pigs, sheep, goats, cattle, camelids or deer to a place for veterinary treatment provided (except in the case of pigs) that the animals will be isolated from all other animals there whilst the treatment is carried out; or

(xv) of a bull for breeding purposes; or ” ;

(b) for sub-paragraphs (3)(i) to (k) there shall be substituted the following—

“ (i) a camelid which is returning to those premises from a trekking expedition or which is crossing them in the course of such an expedition;

(j) a lamb less than 7 days old in the circumstances described in paragraph (2)(b)(iv) above;

(k) cattle which are being returned to those premises from an artificial insemination centre; or

(l) sheep, goats, cattle, camelids or deer being returned to those premises from a place for veterinary treatment or of any offspring to which they have given birth whilst there provided those animals and such offspring have been isolated from all other animals whilst at that place. ” ; and

(c) at the beginning of paragraph (5) the following words are inserted—

• “ Except in the cases referred to in paragraphs (2)(b)(xiv), (3)(a)(i), and (3)(1) above, ” .