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
Citation, commencement and application
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
2. —(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 or camelid .
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
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 ).