Advisory Committee on the Animals (Restriction of Importation) Act 1964: Agenda,...

ED 258

1967-1973

Agendas, minutes and papers of the Advisory Committee on the (Restriction of Importation) Animals Act 1964 relating to the restrictions on the import of rare animals.

Chronological.

Earlier papers of the Committee have not survived as part of the Department of Education and Science Committees Branch set.

Public Record(s)

English

9 file(s)

Open

In 1999 Department for Education and Employment

Topics

Trade and commerce

Transferred to the Department for Education in 1992 and to the Department for Education and Employment in 1995. Papers later than 1973 have passed to the Department of Trade and Industry.

Series is possibly accruing

The Animals (Restriction of Importation) Act 1964 was the British response to Resolution No14 of the 7th General Assembly of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature which called upon all governments to restrict the importation of rare animals to support the efforts of the countries of origin to preserve animals in danger of extinction.

The import of rare animals was to be controlled by the issue of import licences by the Board of Trade with the enforcement of the provisions of the Act the responsibility of HM Customs and Excise.

The advisory committee was set up under the Act by the Secretary of State for Education and Science to provide the Board of Trade, HM Customs and Excise and later the Ministry of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland, responsible for controlling the licensing of animals imported into Northern Ireland, with specialist advice.

The advisory committee dealt with aspects of live animal imports and had some responsibility for quality assurance in the way they were kept after import, both in zoos and similar institutions.