Citation, application and interpretation

1. —(1) This Order—

(a) may be cited as the Animal Welfare Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) (England) Order 2007; and

(b) applies in England only.

(2) In this Order—

“the 1968 Act” means the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968( 2 ); and

“the 2006 Act” means the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

Commencement of provisions

2. The following provisions of the 2006 Act come into force on 1st October 2007—

(a) sections 14 and 15; and

(b) section 65 and Schedule 4, to the extent that they relate to—

(i) sections 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 of the 1968 Act; and

(ii) paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the Animal Health Act 1981( 3 ).

Savings of codes of recommendations for welfare of livestock and transitional provisions

3. —(1) Subject to paragraph 3, a code of recommendations for the welfare of livestock issued under section 3 of the 1968 Act—

(a) has effect during the transitional period in relation to a farmed animal of the species to which the code relates as if the code had been issued under section 14 of the 2006 Act;

(b) may be revised in accordance with sections 14 and 15 of the 2006 Act; and

(c) may be revoked in accordance with section 17 of the 2006 Act.

(2) In paragraph 1(a), the transitional period for a code of recommendations means the period between the coming into force of this Order and the revocation of that code of recommendations under section 17 of the 2006 Act.

(3) A code of recommendations—

(a) applies to a farmed animal of a species to which that code relates whether or not the animal is on agricultural land as defined in section 8(1) of the 1968 Act; and

(b) does not include the “Code of Recommendations for the Welfare of Domestic Fowls”( 4 ) which came into operation on 1st September 1987.