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SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2005 No. 647

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005

  Made 15th December 2005 
  Laid before the Scottish Parliament 15th December 2005 
  Coming into force 23rd January 2006 

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 23 January 2006.

Amendment to regulation 8 of the Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) Regulations 2005
     2. In regulation 8(1) (penalties and time limits) of the Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) Regulations 2005[2] for "six" substitute "three".


ROSS FINNIE
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
15th December 2005


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations correct an error in regulation 8 (penalties and time limits) of the Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures in Zoos) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 by reducing the maximum term of imprisonment, on summary conviction, for offences under the principal Regulations, from six months to three months.

Notes:

 [1] 1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3). The functions conferred on a Minister of the Crown by section 2(2) were transferred, insofar as within devolved competence, to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.back

[2] S.S.I. 2005/531.back


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Prepared 22 December 2005

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