Regulation 7 Powers of veterinary inspectors and officersI1

examine and vaccinate any animal, carcase or thing on those premises;

require the detention, isolation, housing, restraint or treatment of any animal on those premises;

detain or isolate any thing;

require the detention or isolation of any thing;

carry out an epidemiological investigation relevant to the control of bluetongue;

make such tests and take samples (including blood samples) from any animal, carcase or thing on those premises as he may consider necessary for the purpose of diagnosis or epidemiological investigation;

mark for identification purposes any animal, carcase or thing on those premises;

collect midges from those premises and set traps on those premises for the collection of midges;

implement such other vector control measures on those premises as he deems necessary;

require the destruction, burial, disposal or treatment of any thing on those premises;

require the cleansing and disinfection of any part of the premises or of any person, animal or thing on those premises; and

require the occupier, any veterinary surgeon who has attended any animal on those premises and any other person who has been in charge of or in contact with any such animal, to inform him of any other animal or other premises with which any such animal may have come into contact;

require the production of any record kept under these Regulations, in whatever form that record is held;

copy any record; or

inspect and check the operation of any computer and associated apparatus or material used in the connection with the making and keeping of records under these Regulations.