{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aujeszkys-disease-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-22",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/65",
  "legislation_title": "The Aujeszky's Disease Order (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aujeszkys-disease-order-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Compulsory vaccination",
  "text": "(1) The Department may declare a vaccination zone in which the keepers of pigs in premises inside the zone shall ensure the vaccination of pigs on those premises in accordance with that declaration.\n(2) A keeper who fails to vaccinate a pig in accordance with the declaration commits an offence.\n(3) Premises partly inside and partly outside a vaccination zone are deemed as being inside the vaccination zone.\n(4) In the case of pigs outside a vaccination zone, or if a vaccination zone has not been declared a veterinary inspector may serve a notice on a keeper of a pig requiring the keeper to ensure that the pig is vaccinated in accordance with the notice, and failure to comply with the notice is an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/65/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:17:29.921945+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}