UK Offence Report

The Welfare of Animals (Staging Points) Order 1998

UK Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2537 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
13 October 1998
In force from
6 November 1998
Extent
Not stated
Subject
TV licensing, fare evasion and school attendance
Made under
Animal Health Act 1981

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order makes provision for the administration, execution and enforcement of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1255/97 (“the Council Regulation”) concerning Community criteria for staging points and amending the route plan referred to in the Annex to Directive 91/628/EEC (OJ No. L174, 2.7.97, p. 1). The principal provisions of the Order– a designate the appropriate Minister (as defined in section 86(1)(b) of the Animal Health Act 1981) to be the competent authority for the purpose of approving staging points, and withdrawing, suspending and restoring such approvals, as necessary, in accordance with Articles 3.1, 3.3, 3.4 and 4.2 of the Council Regulation (article 3); b confer a power on a veterinary inspector enabling him to serve a notice to protect the welfare of animals that are resting at a staging point in respect of which a notice has been served suspending or withdrawing its approval (article 4); c create offences (articles 5 and 6); d provide for the enforcement of the Order (article 7); and e amend Part I of Schedule 7 to the Welfare of Animals (Transport) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1480) by inserting a paragraph requiring that, unless the 24 hour rest referred to in paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the 1997 Order is taken at the place of destination, it must be taken at a staging point approved under Council Regulation (EC) No. 1255/97 (article 8). A regulatory impact assessment has been prepared and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Animal Welfare Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Government Buildings, Hook Rise South, Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 7NF.

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