The Animal Welfare Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) (England) Order 2007

• Citation: S.I. 2007/2711
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, application and interpretation

(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 ; and

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

Section 2 Commencement of provisions

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 .

Section 3 Savings of codes of recommendations for welfare of livestock and transitional provisions

(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” which came into operation on 1st September 1987.