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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2007 No. 1437

ANIMALS

The Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 (Modification) Order 2007

  Made 8th May 2007 
  Laid before Parliament 14th May 2007 
  Coming into force 1st October 2007 

The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 8(1) of the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976[1], being satisfied that the scope of that Act should be both extended so as to include animals of a kind not for the time being specified in the Schedule to that Act and diminished so as to exclude animals of a kind for the time being specified in that Schedule, makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 (Modification) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 1st October 2007.

Modification
    
2. For the Schedule to the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Revocation
    
3. The Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 (Modification) Order 1984[2] is revoked.


Barry Gardiner
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

8th May 2007



SCHEDULE
Article 2








EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order substitutes the Schedule to the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 ("the Act"), which specifies the kinds of animals to which the provisions of the Act apply. The changes effected by this order represent the outcome of a further review of the Schedule to the Act as last modified by S.I. 1984/1111.

This Order adds the following animals to the Schedule: the Argentine Black-headed snake, the Peruvian racer, the South American green racer, the Amazon false viper, the Middle eastern thin-;tailed scorpion and the dingo.

The following animals are no longer listed in the Schedule and so the provisions of the Act no longer apply to them: certain smaller primates (woolly lemurs, tamarins, night (or owl) monkeys, titis and squirrel monkeys), sloths, the North American porcupine, the capybara, crested porcupines; cacomistles, racoons, coatis, olingoes, the little coatimundi, kinkajou, binturong, cat hybrids which are predominantly domestic cat, hyraxes, guanaco, vicuna, emus, sand snakes, mangrove snakes, and the Brazilian wolf spider.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.


Notes:

[1] 1976 c.38.back

[2] S.I. 1984/1111.back



ISBN 978 0 11 077044 4


 © Crown copyright 2007

Prepared 16 May 2007


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