The Individual Ascertainment of Value (England) Order 2019

Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 946

Animals, England

Animal Health

The Individual Ascertainment of Value (England) Order 2019

Made

20th May 2019

Coming into force

1st July 2019

The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 34(7)(a) of the Animal Health Act 1981(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Individual Ascertainment of Value (England) Order 2019 and comes into force on 1st July 2019.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order, “the principal Order” means the Cattle Compensation (England) Order 2019(2).

(2) Words and expressions defined in the principal Order have the same meaning in this Order as in the principal Order.

Individual ascertainment of value

3.—(1) The market value of an animal is to be ascertained by means of a valuation carried out in accordance with this article where the circumstances identified in article 5(3)(a) or (b) of the principal Order apply.

(2) A valuation is to be carried out—

(a) by a single valuer appointed jointly by the Secretary of State and the owner of the animal;

(b) where there is no such joint appointment, by a single valuer appointed by the Secretary of State.

(3) The appointed valuer must issue to the Secretary of State and the owner of the animal a certificate in writing of the market value of the animal within 14 days of appointment.

Robert Goodwill

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

20th May 2019

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order replaces the Individual Ascertainment of Value (England) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1380), which expires on 1st July 2019. It operates alongside the Cattle Compensation (England) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/945).

Article 3 provides for the individual ascertainment of the market value of domestic cattle by a single valuer in the following circumstances: first, where no sale price data, or inadequate sale price data, are available for the relevant category of cattle and the Secretary of State decides to pay compensation at the level of the market value of the animal in question; secondly, where the animal is a buffalo or bison.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

(1)

1981 c. 22. See section 86(1) for the definition of “the Ministers”. Functions conferred under the Act were transferred, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by S.I. 1999/3141. Functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were further transferred to the Secretary of State by S.I. 2002/794.

(2)

S.I. 2019/945.