This Order may be cited as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2001; it applies to Wales and shall come into force on 3rd March 2001.
SourceS.I. 2001/658 (W.)
The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/658 (W.))
This Order, which applies to Wales, amends the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/1950, as amended) (βthe 1983 Orderβ) to allow local authorities in districts where foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed to make regulations prohibiting, for the purpose of preventing the spreading of foot-and-mouth disease, the movement of persons onto any land (including any common, or any unenclosed or waste land) on which there are or may be animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease or onto any footpath or right of way in an identified area. In a district where the disease has not been confirmed the local authority may make such regulations after consultation with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
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(1) The Foot and Mouth Disease Order 1983 shall be amended, in so far it applies to Wales, in accordance with this article.
(2) In article 3(1) after the definition of βlitterβ there shall be inserted the following definition β
βmade-up carriagewayβ shall have the same meaning as in section 329 of the Highways Act 1980 ;
(3) For article 35B there shall be substituted the following articleβ
Prohibited areas
(35B)
(1) If the Minister has confirmed foot-and-mouth disease in any part of the district of a local authority, the local authority may by regulations prohibit, for the purpose of preventing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, the movement of any personβ
(a) onto any land (including any common, or any unenclosed or waste land) on which there are or may be animals; or
(b) onto any footpath or right of way,
in an area in that district identified in those regulations except for such purposes (if any) as may be specified in them.
(2) The local authority of a district where foot-and-mouth disease has not been confirmed may, after consultation with the Minister, by regulations prohibit, for the purpose of preventing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, the movement of any personβ
(a) onto any land (including any common, or any unenclosed or waste land) on which there are or may be animals; or
(b) onto any footpath or right of way,
in an area in that district identified in those regulations except for such purposes (if any) as may be specified in them.
(3) Regulations made under this article shall notβ
(a) restrict the movement of any person on or onto a made-up carriageway; or
(b) prevent the entry onto any land ofβ
(i) the owner or occupier of that land or the employee of any such owner or occupier or any other person authorised by him; or
(ii) the owner of any animal on that land or the employee of any such owner or any other person authorised by him; or
(iii) any person entering that land under the authority of and in accordance with any conditions specified in a licence granted by an inspector.
(3) Regulations made under this article shall be notified on making to the Minister.
(4) The Minister by declaration published in such manner as he sees fit, or the local authority by regulations, may at any time vary or remove any restrictions imposed under this article.
Any declaration by a local authority prohibiting the movement of any person into or out of an area which was made under article 35B of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 prior to its substitution by this Order shall continue to have effect until revoked by β
(a) a declaration of the Minister, published in such manner as he sees fit;
(b) a further declaration of that local authority published in the same manner as the declaration being revoked; or
(c) regulations made under article 35B as substituted by this order.
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- S.I. 2001/658 (W.)
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