Statutory Instruments
2007 No. 864
RIVER, ENGLAND and wales
SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES
The Diseases of Fish (England and Wales) Order 2007
Made
15th March 2007
Laid before Parliament
16th March 2007
Coming into force
6th April 2007
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 13(1) of the Diseases of Fish Act 1937( 1 ), makes the following Order.
Title, extent and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Diseases of Fish (England and Wales) Order 2007; it extends to England and Wales and comes into force on 6th April 2007.
Amendment of definition of “infected” in Diseases of Fish Act 1937
2. In the definition of “infected” in section 10(1) of the Diseases of Fish Act 1937( 2 ), after “infectious salmon anaemia (ISA),” insert “Koi Herpesvirus Disease,”.
Ben Bradshaw
Minister of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
15th March 2007
1937 c. 33 ; the definition of “the Minister” in section 10(1) was inserted by section 5 of, and the Schedule, paragraph 8 to, the Diseases of Fish Act 1983 (c. 30) . A new section 13 was substituted by section 4(6) of the Diseases of Fish Act 1983. Powers of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002, S. I. 2002/794 . By virtue of article 2(a) of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/672 ) the functions exercisable under section 13 of the 1937 Act were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales, concurrently with any Minister of the Crown by whom they are exercisable, in so far as exercisable in relation to Wales.
The definition of “infected” in section 10(1) was amended by S.I. 1984/301 , S.I. 1988/195 and S. I. 1990/616 .