
1 
These regulations may be cited as the Mink (Keeping) (Amendment) Regulations 1982 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1983.
2 
The Mink (Keeping) Regulations 1975 shall be amended as follows:—
(a) in regulation 5(3) (fees payable in respect of the granting of licences) for “£35” there shall be substituted “£58”;
(b) in paragraphs (2) and (3) of Schedule 2 (manner in which mink are to be confined and precautions to be observed) after the words “not greater than 26mm” where they occur in each of these paragraphs there shall be inserted the words “or, alternatively, welded mesh of not less than 15 gauge with a mesh size not greater than 26mm × 40mm”.
In Witness whereof the official seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 15th December 1982.
Peter Walker
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
George Younger
Secretary of State for Scotland
16th December 1982Nicholas Edwards
Secretary of State for Wales
22nd December 1982Alastair Goodlad
P. L. Brooke
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
Approved on 23rd December 1982