3 Animals
and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations 2004: defective
drafting
Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export)
Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/853)
3.1 The Committee draws the special attention
of both Houses to these Regulations on the ground that they are
defectively drafted.
3.2 Regulation 13(2)(a) states that a notice shall
require a person to take certain action in relation to animals
or products, "and to take such further action in relation
to them as may be so specified in the notice, and to take
such further action in relation to them as may be so specified
for the purpose of preventing the introduction or spreading of
disease into or within England". In a memorandum printed
at Appendix 3, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs acknowledges that it was not necessary to include both
the words underlined and those that follow them, and undertakes
to make an appropriate amendment when it next re-makes the Regulations,
which it intends to do in two to three months time. The Committee
accordingly reports these Regulations for defective drafting,
acknowledged by the Department.
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