Supplementary Order Paper 22nd February 2000

STATES OF JERSEY ORDER PAPER

Tuesday, 22nd February 2000 SUPPLEMENTARY

B.  T ABLING OF SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION (Explanatory note attached)

Pet Travel Scheme (Pilot Arrangements) (Jersey) Order 2000.  R & O 13/2000.

Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and other Mammals) (Amendment No. 3) (Jersey) Order 2000. R & O 14/2000. Agriculture and Fisheries Committee.

D.  P RESENTATION OF PAPERS

(a) Papers for information

Matters presented under Standing Order 6A(1)(a)

Births, Marriages and Deaths in 1999: statement. R .C  .9 /2000 Etat Civil Committee.

10. C OMMITTEESTATEMENTS

The President of the Agriculture and Fisheries Committee will make a statement about the pet travel scheme.

11. P UBLICBUSINESS

Old Street, St. Helier: purchase (P.201/99 re-issue) - comments. Public Services Committee.

(attached)

G.H.C. COPPOCK Greffier of the States

22nd February 2000

Explanatory Note regarding subordinate legislation tabled at this Meeting

(See Item B)

R & O 13/2000

The purpose of this Order is to create, in limited circumstances, an exemption from the requirements for pet dogs and cats (referred to simply as pets) imported into Jersey to be put in quarantine under the Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and other Mammals) (Jersey) Order 1976.

Article 1 contains the interpretation provisions and Article 2 disapplies the 1976 Order where pets are imported in compliance with the Order. The new Order itself does not apply to pets imported from another part of the British Islands or from the Republic or Ireland which have never been outside those territories or, if they have done so, have been brought into those territories in compliance with the Order or similar legislation applicable in the territory concerned.

Article 3 requires the pet to be imported by sea from St. Malo to St. Helier (either directly or via Guernsey) using an approved carrier and provides that the pet must stay in a vehicle throughout the journey.

Article 4 requires the pet to have been implanted with a microchip which must be read by the carrier. The health requirements set out in Article 5 must also be satisfied. These relate to vaccination against rabies resulting in a sufficiency of antibodies and treatment against a type of tapeworm and ticks.  Schedule 1 sets out the countries within the ambit of the scheme. Article 6 imposes requirements as to documentation which must accompany the pet. The detail of the information regarding the health certificate relating to rabies is set out in Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 sets out the form of the declaration that has to be signed by the person importing the pet.

Article 7 empowers the Agriculture and Fisheries Committee to approve carriers to transport pets under the scheme if certain conditions and requirements are met. The requirements are set out in Schedule 4. The duties imposed on carriers are set out in Article 8 which require the carrier tocarry out various checks to satisfy itself that the importation of the pet complies with the Order. Where the carrier is not so satisfied it must refuse to allow the pet to travel to Jersey or ensure that it is quarantined on arrival. Where it is satisfied it will provide a hanger or sticker for the windscreen of the car in which the pet is carried. The person importing the pet has to display this until the pet leaves the confines of the port and must produce the documentation described in Article 6 on demand by an inspector (Article 9).

Article 10 contains transitional provisions relating to blood tests carried out before the Order comes into force. The citation and commencement is in Article 11.

The Order was made on 21st February 2000 and comes into force on 28th February 2000. R & O 14/2000

The purpose of this Order is to make amendments to the Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and other Mammals) (Jersey) Order 1976 that are consequential upon the Pet Travel Scheme (Pilot Arrangements) (Jersey) Order 2000 ("the 2000 Order").

Article 3 of the Order extends the prohibition on landing an animal in the Bailiwick without the requirement for detention in quarantine to -

  (a ) d ogs and cats brought into the Island from other parts of the British Islands but which have previously been

abroad provided they were imported into the British Islands in accordance with the 2000 Order or equivalent legislation in other parts of the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland; and

(b ) d o gs and cats imported from abroad in compliance with the 2000 Order.

There is also provision to release a cat or dog from quarantine where certain conditions and provisions of the 2000 Order have been complied with (Article 4). The requirement to vaccinate against rabies may now be dispensed with if the dog or cat has been resident in a country within the ambit of the pet travel scheme for six months prior to being quarantined and it has been vaccinated in accordance with the 2000 Order (Article 5).

The Order was made on 21st February 2000 and comes into force on 28th February 2000.

OLD STREET, ST. HELIER: PURCHASE (P.201/99 re-issue)

Comments of the Public Services Committee

The public car park closure will involve the loss of 37 spaces that are subject to a three-hour maximum stay. The Sand Street multi-storey car park, that is designated as a shoppers car park and also subject to a three hour maximum stay, has spare capacity for the majority of the year and being nearby will be able to accommodate the vehicles displaced from the Old Street car park.

The car park designated for States members and officials visiting Cyril Le Marquand House will be closed, resulting in alternative parking having to be used when visiting Cyril Le Marquand House. States members parking is provided on the Island Site to the rear of the Tourism Department.

The closure of this car park is not expected for several months, during which time the Public Services Committee will be reviewing the implications to States members and looking into alternative arrangements.