Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 2111

The Spring Traps Approval (Variation) Order 1988

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1988 No. 2111

ANIMALS
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY

The Spring Traps Approval (Variation) Order 1988

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, as respects England, and the Secretary of State, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(3) and (7) of the Pests Act 1954^[1] and now vested in them^[2] 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 Spring Traps Approval (Variation) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st January 1989.

Variation of principal Order
    2.    The Spring Traps Approval Order 1975^[3] shall be varied by inserting at the end of the Schedule (in which are set out traps of a type and make approved for the purposes of section 8 of the Pests Act 1954) the provisions set out in the Schedule to this Order.

[1] 1954 c. 68. back

[2] In the case of the Secretary of State by virtue of S.I. 1978/272. back

[3] S.I. 1975/1647, amended by S.I. 1982/53. back

Explanatory Note