The Warble Fly (England and Wales) (Infected Areas) Order 1985
UK Statutory Instrument 1985 No. 1542 — creates 1 criminal offence.
- Made
- 2 October 1985
- In force from
- 23 October 1985
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Dogs, animals, hunting and wildlife
- Made under
- Animal Health Act 1981
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This order, which applies to England and Wales, enables the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to declare any area in which he believes or suspects the warble fly to exist to be an infected area. The warble fly is an insect which parasitically infests cattle. The order continues to regulate the movement of cattle out of an infected area (article 4), to require cattle in an infected area to be treated (with certain exceptions) (article 5 and 14) and to prohibit the holding of a cattle market in an infected area except under the authority of a licence issued by the local authority (article 10). The only change of substance made by the order is the inclusion of a prohibition on the receipt of untreated cattle from an infected area at a market held outside an infected area unless the market is authorised to receive such cattle by a licence issued by the local authority and the cattle have been moved there under licence. In addition, the further movement of such cattle is permitted only under licence to certain specified destinations (article 11).
Offences created by this instrument
- Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, proof of which shall lie on him— a contravenes any provision of… article 17 · Status not determined · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.
How Parliament handled it
Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.
Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1985