
1992 No. 3159
ANIMALSANIMAL HEALTH
The Specified Diseases (Notification and Slaughter) Order 1992
Made 10th December 1992
Coming into force 1st January 1993
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 15(4). 32(2), 87(2) and 88(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981 and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—
Title and commencement
1 
These Order may be cited as the Specified Diseases (Notification and Slaughter) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.
Application of section 22 of the Animal Health Act 1981
2 

(1) Section 32 of the Animal Health Act 1981, which enables the Minister to cause animals to be slaughtered on account of disease, shall apply to the following diseases–
 African horse sickness 
 Bluetongue
 Brucellosis caused by Brucella melitensis 
 Contagious agalactia 
 Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
 Contagious epidydimitis 
 Dourine (Trypanosoma equiperdum)
 Ebola virus
 Epizootic haemorrhagic virus disease 
 Epizootic Lymphangitis (Histoplasma farciminosum)
 Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)
 Equine infectious anaemia
 Equine Viral Encephalomyelitis
 Goat pox 
 Lumpy Skin Disease 
 Peste des Petits Ruminants 
 Rift Valley Fever 
 Sheep pox 
 Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)
 Teschen Disease 
 Vesicular Stomatitis 
(2) For the purposes of this article the definition of “animal” in the Animal Health Act 1981 is hereby extended to include any kind of mammal except man.
Amendment of the Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1991
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Amendment of the Diseases of Animals (Ascertainment of Disease) Order 1985
4 
In Article 3 of the Diseases of Animals (Ascertainment of Disease) Order 1985, for the definition of “disease” there shall be substituted the following–“
 “Disease” means African horse sickness, Aujeszky’s disease, Brucellosis caused by Brucella melitensis, cattle plague, contagious agalactia, contagious epidydimitis, dourine, enzootic bovine leukosis, equine infectious anaemia, equine encephalomyelitis, pleuro-pnemonia, rabies, sheep-pox, swine fever and Teschen disease;”.
Revocations and consequential amendments
5 
The Orders referred to in Schedule 2 to this Order are hereby revoked or amended as specified in that Schedule.
In witness thereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
10th December 1992Hector Munro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
10th December 1992David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
10th December 1992
SCHEDULE 1
Article 3

SCHEDULE
SPECIFIED DISEASES
Articles 2(b) and 3

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SCHEDULE 2
Article 4
PART 1 REVOCATIONS

Title of Order Reference Extent of revocation
The Sheep Pox Order 1938 SR&O 1938/229 The whole Order
The Brucellosis Melitensis Order 1940 SR&O 1940/1251 The whole Order
The Brucellosis Melitensis (Amendment) Order 1942 SR&O 1942/143 The whole Order
The Teschen Disease Order 1974 S.I.1974/1185 The whole Order
The Brucellosis Melitensis (Amendment) Order 1977 S.I.1977/945 The whole Order
PART II AMENDMENTS
1 
In Schedule 2 to The Importation of Animals Order 1977 the references to the Sheep Pox Order of 1938 and the Teschen Disease Order 1974 shall be deleted.
2 
In the Infectious Diseases of Horses Order 1987 the words “African horse sickness,” shall be deleted from Article 2(b) and in the definition of “disease” in Article 3(1).