Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 3260

animals, england

animal health

The Welfare of Animals (Transport) (England) Order 2006

Made

5th December 2006

Coming into force

5th January 2007

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 7, 8(1), 37, 38(1), 39, 83(2) and 87(2), (3) and (5)(a) of the Animal Health Act 1981(1), and now vested in him(2), makes the following Order:

(1)

1981 c. 22.

(2)

Functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86 of that Act) 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) and were then further transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).