{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blue-eared-pig-disease-order-1991/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blue-eared-pig-disease-order-1991/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1381",
  "legislation_title": "The Blue Eared Pig Disease Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blue-eared-pig-disease-order-1991",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Declaration of infected place",
  "text": "(1) If a veterinary inspector has reasonable grounds for supposing that the disease exists or has within 56 days existed on any premises he shall serve a notice in form A on the occupier of the premises declaring them to be an infected place.\n(2) An infected place shall be subject to the requirements set out in Schedule 1 until a notice in form B is served in accordance with article 6(5) or (6).\n(3) For the purpose of preventing the spread of the disease, a veterinary inspector may, by notice served on the occupier of the infected place—\n(a) add such requirements as are specified in the notice; or\n(b) modify or disapply such requirements as are set out in Schedule 1 or in the notice served under subparagraph (a) above.\n(4) A veterinary inspector may at any time alter the limits of an infected place by the service of a notice in form C on the occupier.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1992",
      "affecting_title": "The Blue Eared Pig Disease (Amendment) Order 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1381/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:50.853743+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."
}