The Rabies Virus Order 1979
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 24 of the Diseases of Animals Act 1950(a) and section 6A of the Rabies Act 1974(b), and now vested in them(c), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, for the purpose of preventing the introduction or spreading of rabies into or within Great Britain, hereby order as follows:—