Biology:Diseases of Animals Act

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Short description: Series of acts of the UK Parliament

The Diseases of Animals Act is a series of acts of Parliament of the UK to deal with the possibility of the accrual of economic harm or intra-species contamination. It follows on from the 19th-century series notation Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act. The Act of 1884 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 Act of 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.[6][7]

  • Diseases of Animals Act 1894
  • Diseases of Animals Act 1896
  • Diseases of Animals Act 1903
  • Diseases of Animals Act 1909
  • Diseases of Animals Act 1910
  • Diseases of Animals (Ireland) Act 1914
  • Diseases of Animals Act 1922
  • Diseases of Animals Act 1924
  • Diseases of Animals Act 1925
  • Diseases of Animals Act 1927
  • Diseases of Animals Act 1935
  • Diseases of Animals Act 1950
  • Diseases of Animals Act 1975

See also

  • Slaughter of Poultry Act 1967

References