Statutory Instruments
1996 No. 3265

ANIMALS
ANIMAL HEALTH
The Markets, Sales and Lairs (Amendment) Order 1996

Made
30th December 1996

Coming into force
23rd January 1997

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Animal Health Act 1981(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Markets, Sales and Lairs (Amendment) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 23rd January 1997.

Amendment to the Markets, Sales and Lairs Order of 1925

2.  Paragraphs (1)(b) and (2) of article 2 of the Markets, Sales and Lairs Order of 1925(2) are hereby revoked.

Angela Browning
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
23rd December 1996

Lindsay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
30th December 1996

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jonathan Evans
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
20th December 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Markets, Sales and Lairs Order of 1925. It removes the requirement in article 2 of that Order for the use of a lair to be authorised by a licence.


(1)
1981 c. 22. See section 86(1)(c) for a definition of “the Ministers”.

(2)
S.R.& O. 1925/1349 to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.