Diseases of Animals Act
The Diseases of Animals Acts are a series of acts of Parliament of the UK to deal with the possibility of the accrual of economic harm or intra-species contamination. They follows on from the 19th-century series notation Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act. The act of 1884[which?] was designed to combat "heavy losses" due to cattle diseases such as rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).[1]
The series was consolidated by the Diseases of Animals Act 1950.[2] The act of 1950 authorised the Ministry[clarification needed], when all other avenues of tuberculin prevention failed, to cull badgers,[3] and to halt the transportation of cattle from herds prone to FMD.[4] Apparently the definition of poultry needed to be extended in 1953, to include birds of the species psittaciformes, doves, peafowl and swans.[5] The series was stopped and continued by the Animal Health Act 1981 (c. 22).[6][7]
- Diseases of Animals Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 57)
- Diseases of Animals Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 15)
- Diseases of Animals Act 1903 (3 Edw. 7. c. 43)
- Diseases of Animals Act 1909 (9 Edw. 7. c. 26)
- Diseases of Animals Act 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5. c. 20)
- Diseases of Animals (Ireland) Act 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 40)
- Diseases of Animals Act 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5. c. 8)
- Diseases of Animals Act 1924 (14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 3)
- Diseases of Animals Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 63)
- Diseases of Animals Act 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5. c. 13)
- Diseases of Animals Act 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 31)
- Diseases of Animals Act 1950 (14 Geo. 6. c. 36)
- Diseases of Animals Act 1975 (c. 40)
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References[edit]
- ^ Rushton, Jonathan (2009). The Economics of Animal Health and Production. ISBN 9781845932442.
- ^ "Diseases of Animals Act 1950: consolidation of Diseases of Animals Acts 1894-1937". The National Archives.
- ^ Zuckerman, Baron Solly Zuckerman; Walker, Peter Edward (3 November 1980). Badgers, cattle and tuberculosis: Report to the Right Honourable Peter Walker, MBE, MP. H.M. Stationery Office. ISBN 9780112403555.
- ^ Reynolds, L. A.; Wellcome Trust (London, England). Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (8 December 2003). Foot and mouth disease: The 1967 outbreak and its aftermath. Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. ISBN 9780854840960.
- ^ "The Diseases of Animals (Extension of Definition of Poultry) Order 1953". legislation.gov.uk.
- ^ Jukes, D. J. (11 September 2013). Food Legislation of the UK: A Concise Guide. Elsevier. ISBN 9781483182636.
- ^ Boden, Edward; Andrews, Anthony (26 March 2015). Black's Veterinary Dictionary. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781408149553.
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