Pig Industry Development Scheme 2000 (Confirmation) Order 2001 (S.I. No. 935 of 2001). Country/Territory United Kingdom Territorial subdivision Great Britain Document type Regulation Date 2001 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Livestock Keyword Animal production Agricultural development Subsidy/incentive Special fund Slaughtering Geographical area Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe Entry into force notes Coming into force on 14 March 2001. Abstract This Order confirms the Pig Industry Development Scheme (2000). This Scheme has as its objective the provision of such facilities or services, and the giving of such financial assistance, as the Meat and Livestock Commission shall determine for the purpose of the better organization and development of the pig industry in dealing with the risk of pig herds contracting an infectious disease and the financial consequences for the businesses of pig producers, in so far as incurred in Great Britain, of any such disease. For this purpose, the Commission are given the functions set out in Schedule 1 to the Development Scheme. Paragraph 13 of the Development Scheme provides for the Commission to establish a fund for the operation of the Development Scheme, and Schedule 2 to the Development Scheme provides for contributions to that fund to be made from charges levied on slaughterers of pigs which are slaughtered in a slaughter house. Provision is made for the Commission to determine that such charges shall be recoverable from the person from whom the slaughterer has purchased the pig or on whose instructions the pig has been slaughtered, and, where such charges are recoverable from an auctioneer, for the charges to be recoverable by the auctioneer in turn from the person for whom he auctioned the pig. The Development Scheme enables the Commission to require slaughterers to be registered in a register kept by the Commission, and to keep accurate records relating to pigs slaughtered. The Development Scheme applies the offences in section 14(2) and (3) in relation to the levy scheme set out in Schedule 2, and also applies for the purposes of that levy scheme the powers of entry conferred by section 23 of the Act and the restrictions on disclosure of information in section 24 of the Act. Full text English Website www.opsi.gov.uk