{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aujeszkys-disease-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aujeszkys-disease-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-5.json",
  "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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Notification of suspicion of disease",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) is in possession or in charge of a pig or carcase; or\n(b) inspects or examines a pig or carcase; and\n(c) suspects the pig to be diseased or the pig or carcase to be contaminated with Aujeszky's disease virus,\nshall immediately notify the Department.\n(2) A person who examines a sample taken from a pig or carcase and who—\n(a) suspects that it is contaminated with Aujeszky's disease virus; or\n(b) detects pathological evidence of Aujeszky's Disease Virus or evidence of antibodies to, or antigens of, that virus,\nshall immediately notify the Department.\n(3) Failure to comply with this article is an offence.\n(4) Information required to be given under paragraph (1) or (2) shall include—\n(a) the address of the premises on which the pig or carcase was kept;\n(b) the name and address of the keeper;\n(c) where it relates to a breeding pig or the carcase of a breeding pig, the individual identification mark of that pig; and\n(d) the holding code of the keeper.",
  "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/5",
    "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."
}