Welsh Statutory Instruments
ANIMALS, WALES
ANIMAL HEALTH
Made at:
4.10 p.m. on 22nd March 2001
Coming into force at:-
5.00 p.m. on 22nd March 2001
The National Assembly for Wales and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1 and 34(7) of the Animal Health Act 1981(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, make the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Foot-And-Mouth Disease (Ascertainment of Value ) (Wales) Order 2001; it applies in relation to Wales and comes into force at 5pm on 22nd March 2001.
2.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 3 to the Animal Health Act 1981 the value of an animal slaughtered by the Minister because of foot-and-mouth disease shall be in accordance with this article.
(2) If the owner decides that he wishes to have the animal valued by a valuer, the value is the amount determined in writing by a valuer appointed jointly by the Minister and the owner of the animal or, failing such appointment, by a valuer appointed by the President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) If the owner does not wish to have the animal valued by a valuer, the value is the amount set out for that animal in the Schedule.
(4) The valuer shall be paid by the Minister.
D. Elis Thomas
Presiding Officer National Assembly for Wales
Signed at 3.30 p.m. on 22nd March 2001
Helene Hayman
Minister of State Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Signed at 4.10 p.m. on 22nd March 2001
Article 2
| Animal | Rate |
|---|---|
| (£) | |
| SHEEP | |
| Breeding ewes (in lamb/lamb at foot) | 90 |
| Cull/draft ewes | 32 |
| Hoggets (male and female old season’s lamb) | 55 |
| New season’s lamb | 60 |
| Rams | 150 |
| PIGS | |
| Gilts | 190 |
| Breeding sows | 130 |
| Cull sows | 80 |
| Piglets on sow | 18 |
| Stores: Breeding units (weaners) | 30 |
| Stores: Finishing unit | 55 |
| Boars | 520 |
| CATTLE | |
| Clean cattle: steers | 600 |
| Clean cattle: heifers | 500 |
| Clean cattle: young bulls | 580 |
| Breeding cows | 1,100 |
| Breeding heifers | 900 |
| Breeding bulls | 1,000 |
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order establishes in Wales the system for ascertaining the value of animals slaughtered because of foot-and-mouth disease. The Schedule sets out fixed amounts of compensation if the owner does not choose to have the animals valued.
A Regulatory Appraisal has not been prepared.
1981 c. 22. See section 86(1) for the definitions of “the Ministers” and “the Minister”. Functions of “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable by the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Wales, were transferred 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 Ministers”, so far as exercisable by the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).