Animal Health (Amendment) Act 1998
1998 CHAPTER 13
An Act to improve the welfare of animals in quarantine; and for connected purposes.
[21st May 1998]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
NOTES
Initial Commencement
Specified date
Specified date: 21 July 1998: see s 2(2).
1 Welfare of animals kept in quarantine
In Schedule 2 to the Animal Health Act 1981 (matters in respect of which importation control orders may be made), after paragraph 4 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
"4A
The premises at which animals and other things are to be kept in quarantine in pursuance of the order and the welfare of the animals kept in such premises.”.
NOTES
Initial Commencement
Specified date
Specified date: 21 July 1998: see s 2(2).
2 Short title, commencement and extent
(1)   This Act may be cited as the Animal Health (Amendment) Act 1998.
(2)   This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the date on which it is passed.
(3)   This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
NOTES
Initial Commencement
Specified date
Specified date: 21 July 1998: see sub-s (2) above.
 
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