{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2012/199",
  "legislation_title": "The Bluetongue (Scotland) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Control zones",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers must, on confirmation of bluetongue on premises in Scotland, declare a control zone.\n(2) If bluetongue is confirmed outside Scotland by a competent authority other than the Scottish Ministers, the Scottish Ministers may declare a control zone in Scotland.\n(3) The size of a control zone is to be such as the Scottish Ministers consider necessary to reduce the spread of bluetongue.\n(4) A person must not move an animal, into, out of, or within a control zone.\n(5) A control zone may be extended or reduced by the Scottish Ministers on the basis of epidemiological, geographical, ecological or meteorological circumstances.\n(6) The Scottish Ministers may, in declaring a control zone, specify such other measures as they consider necessary to reduce the risk of the spread of bluetongue.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 15 in force at 24.9.2012, see art. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/199/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:16.376408+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."
}