Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 3302

The Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 (Amendment) Regulations 1992

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1992 No. 3302

ANIMALS

The Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 (Amendment) Regulations 1992

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State being Ministers designated^[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^[2] in relation to the common agricultural policy of the Economic Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), hereby make the following Regulations:

Title and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 20th January 1993.

Amendment of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932
    2.    The provisions of section 11 of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932^[3] (interpretation) shall become subsection (1) of that section and the following subsection shall be added after that subsection—
"  (2)  Any reference in this Act to importation into Great Britain does not include a reference to importation from a member State." .

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on
21st December 1992.

(L.S.)
John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Hector Monro

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State

23rd December 1992

These Regulations amend the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 so as to remove from the scope of the Act importation of destructive animals from a member State (regulation 2).
The Regulations implement the United Kingdom's obligations under article 30 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community so far as it concerns the importation into Great Britain of destructive non-indigenous animals.

[1] S.I. 1972/1811 back

[2] 1972 c. 68. back

[3] 1932 c. 12. back