Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Divisions: Registered Files, Livestock and Livestock Semen Exports and Imports (LEI Series)

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Reference: MAF 248
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Divisions: Registered Files, Livestock and Livestock Semen Exports and Imports (LEI Series)
Description:

The LEI series cover a wide range of topics relating to the import and export of breeding livestock and semen, particularly controls to ensure the health of livestock and livestock strains in the UK, and to comply with other states' regulations concerning veterinary control of imported livestock. Some of the more important subjects covered are the importation of animals in exceptional circumstances; applications for licensing; the prohibition of certain unacceptable imports; the examination of other countries' animal health regulations and liaison with cattle societies.

The series includes some early files re-registered from the TLY file series: MAF 121

Date: 1945-1978
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: LEI file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 67 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2007 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

from 1983 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Accumulation dates: 1955 onwards
Accruals: Series is accruing

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