{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/avian-influenza-h5n1-in-wild-birds-scotland-order-2006/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/avian-influenza-h5n1-in-wild-birds-scotland-order-2006/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/196",
  "legislation_title": "The Avian Influenza (H5N1 in Wild Birds) (Scotland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/avian-influenza-h5n1-in-wild-birds-scotland-order-2006",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Powers of a veterinary inspector to impose biosecurity measures",
  "text": "–\n(1) A veterinary inspector may, if the inspector considers it necessary to prevent the spread of avian influenza, require—\n(a) the detention and isolation of any vehicle, equipment or other thing by serving a notice on the occupier of the premises where it is, or on the person in charge of it;\n(b) the cleansing and disinfection of any premises where poultry or other captive birds are kept, by serving a notice on the occupier of those premises;\n(c) the relocation of bird food and water supply on any premises where poultry and other captive birds are kept by serving a notice on the occupier of those premises;\n(d) the provision of facilities for disinfection on any premises where poultry or other captive birds are kept, by serving a notice on the occupier of those premises;\n(e) the screening of any body of water on any premises where poultry or other captive birds are kept to prevent access by wild waterfowl, by serving a notice on the occupier of those premises;\n(f) the removal, laundering, cleansing and disinfection or disposal of the clothing or footwear of any person by serving a notice on that person;\n(g) any person to cleanse himself or herself by serving a notice on that person;\n(h) the detention or isolation in a specified place of any bird by serving a notice on the occupier of the premises where it is or on its keeper; and\n(i) the separation of any bird from other birds by serving a notice on the occupier of the premises where it is or on its keeper.\n(2) A notice served under this article may contain such directions and conditions as the veterinary inspector consider necessary to prevent the spread of avian influenza.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/196/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:12.617338+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."
}