Catalogue description Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs: Animal Health Bill 2002: Registered Files (AHPL Prefix)
Reference: | MAF 779 |
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Title: | Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs: Animal Health Bill 2002: Registered Files (AHPL Prefix) |
Description: |
The records comprise of the progress, implementation and consultation to the Bill to alter the Animal Health Act 1981. |
Date: | 2001-2002 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | AHPL |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2001- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Health (Disease Control) Division, 1991-2001 |
Physical description: | 3 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2018 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
Selection and destruction information: | 3.1.1 The principal policies and actions of the UK central government and English and Welsh Governments |
Accruals: | Series is accruing |
Administrative / biographical background: |
An Animal Health Bill Team was created in 2001 under the Animal Disease Control Division, in order to make amendments to the Animal Health Act 1981, in light of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak. Amendments were required to provide new powers to deal rapidly with any resurgence or future outbreak of foot and mouth disease. These measures increase the options that are available to the Government for effective disease control, including wider powers of slaughter and new powers of entry for vaccination, slaughter and other purposes. |
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