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Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 2996

ANIMALS, ENGLAND

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Bluetongue (Compensation) Order 2007

Made

17th October 2007

Laid before Parliament

19th October 2007

Coming into force

20th October 2007

With the approval of the Treasury, the Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 32(3) of the Animal Health Act 1981( 1 ) and now vested in him( 2 ).

Citation, commencement and application I1

1. This Order—

(a) may be cited as the Bluetongue (Compensation) Order 2007;

(b) comes into force on 20th October 2007;

(c) applies only in England.

Compensation I2

F12. —(1) Paragraph (2) applies where the Secretary of State causes any animal to be slaughtered under section 32 of the Animal Health Act 1981 ...

(2) The compensation payable by the Secretary of State in respect of the animal shall be its market value immediately before it was slaughtered had it not been affected or suspected of being affected with, or had it not been exposed to the infection of, bluetongue.

(3) In this article, “animal” means a ruminating animal[F2 or camelid F2] .

Jeff Rooker

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

14th October 2007

We approve

Claire Ward

Dave Watts

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

17th October 2007

( 1 )

1981 c. 22 .

( 2 )

Functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Minister” and “the Ministers” are now exercisable by the Secretary of State. Functions of “the Ministers” were transferred, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/3141 ). Functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were then further transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 ( S.I. 2002/794 ).

Status: There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Bluetongue (Compensation) Order 2007.
The Bluetongue (Compensation) Order 2007 (2007/2996)

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F1Words in art. 2(1) omitted (20.12.2023) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Amendment) (England) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1415) , arts. 1(1) , 6(2)(a)omitted
F2Words in art. 2(3) inserted (20.12.2023) by The Exotic Disease (Amendment) (England) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1415) , arts. 1(1) , 6(2)(b)inserted
I1Art. 1 in force at 20.10.2007, see art. 1(b)
I2Art. 2 in force at 20.10.2007, see art. 1(b)
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