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RIVER, ENGLAND AND WALES RIVER, SCOTLAND
SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES
Laid before Parliament in draft
Made
12th December 1973
Coming into Operation
1st January 1974
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 12th day of December 1973
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas a draft of this Order has, in accordance with section 13 of the Diseases of Fish Act 1937 (as applied by section 6(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946), been laid before Parliament:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by the said section 13, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-
1. This Order may be cited as the Diseases of Fish Order 1973 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1974.
2.-(1) In this Order "the Act" means
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3. The provisions of the Act shall apply with respect to the diseases named in the Schedule to this Order (being diseases affecting fish of the salmon family or freshwater fish) as those provisions apply with respect to furunculosis and columnaris.
4. For the definitions of the expressions "infected" and "infected waters" contained in section 10(1) of the Act (as substituted by the Diseases of Fish Order 1966(1))) there shall be substituted the following definitions, that is to say-
"-�infected' means
-�infected waters' means
W.G. Agnew
Article 3
Diseases to which the Act is extended:-
Infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN);
Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS or Egtved disease);
Myxosoma (Lentospora) cerebralis (whirling disease);
Infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN);
Ulcerative dermal necrosis (UDN); and
Infectious dropsy of cyprinids (IDC or IAD) in any of its forms including spring viraemia and erythrodermatitis.
This Order extends the provisions of the Diseases of Fish Act 1937 to the diseases referred to in the Schedule to the Order and accordingly substitutes for the definitions in the Act of the expressions "infected" and "infected waters" the definitions provided in Article 4 of the Order. The diseases mentioned in the Schedule affect fish of the salmon family (i.e. salmon and trout) or freshwater fish.
(1966 II, p. 2284).
