The Selective Cull (Enforcement of Community Compensation Conditions) Regulations 1996
UK Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 3186 — creates 2 criminal offences.
- Made
- 18 December 1996
- In force from
- 24 January 1997
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Agriculture, plant health, food production and rural affairs
- Made under
- European Communities Act 1972
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.
These Regulations make provision for the enforcement of certain of the requirements of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1484/96 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom by application of Commission Decision 96/385/EC. The Regulation provides for the co-financing by the European Community of the compensation payable to owners of bovine animals slaughtered under the selective cull set out in the BSE eradication plan drawn up by the United Kingdom and approved by Commission Decision 96/385/EC. Various requirements are specified as to the slaughter, treatment and disposal of animals in respect of which compensation is payable. Regulation 3 creates offences in respect of breaches of the provisions of the Commission Regulation referred to in Column 1 (and described in Column 2) of the Schedule to the Regulations. Penalties are specified for such offences (regulation 4).
Offences created by this instrument
- Where there is, in a slaughterhouse, a contravention of, or failure to comply with, any specified Community provision… regulation 3(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Where there is, at premises housing an incinerator or at a rendering plant, a contravention of, or failure to comply… regulation 3(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
Contributions, debates and written statements mentioning this instrument by name. Parliamentary material is reused under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
- Selective Cull (Enforcement Ofcommunity Compensation Conditions)Regulations 1996
Lords · Lords Chamber · 3 January 1997 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office (The Earl of Lindsay)
My Lords, I join other noble Lords in expressing my gratitude to the noble Lord, Lord Carter, for giving the House the opportunity to discuss the selective cull regulations. It also gives the Government the opportunity to set out the wider context of this almost unprecedented event. I stress to noble Lords on the other side of the House and to my noble friends Lord Marlesford and Lord Peyton that the Florence framework placed five commitments and prerequisites on which the opening up of the export markets depends. At the same time it placed obligations on our European colleagues and on the…
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Commons · Commons Chamber · 21 January 1997 · The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Douglas Hogg)
The House has discussed the selective cull on a number of occasions and is well acquainted with the issues. Furthermore, the time allocated for debate is short. Therefore, my intention is to be brief. There are two statutory instruments before the House. The first is the Selective Cull (Enforcement of Community Compensation Conditions) Regulations 1996 and the second is the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Compensation Order 1996. The House will be aware that there is another order, the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (No. 2) Order 1996, which provides the powers to restrict and slaughter…
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Commons · Commons Chamber · 21 January 1997 · Dr. Gavin Strang (Edinburgh, East)
I beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that the Selective Cull (Enforcement of Community Compensation Conditions) Regulations 1996 (S.I., 1996, No. 3186), dated 18th December 1996, a copy of which was laid before this House on 18th December, be annulled.
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