The Coypus (Keeping) Order 1972
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, being satisfied with respect to the non-indigenous animals which are the subject of this order that by reason of their destructive habits it is desirable to control the keeping of them and to destroy any which may be at large, in exercise of powers conferred by section 10(1) of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932(a) and now vested in them jointly (b) and of all othe...