{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2012/199",
  "legislation_title": "The Bluetongue (Scotland) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Restricted, protection and surveillance zones",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers must, on confirmation of bluetongue on premises in Scotland, declare an appropriate area a restricted zone.\n(2) If bluetongue is confirmed outside Scotland by a competent authority, the Scottish Ministers may, if they consider it appropriate for disease control purposes, declare a restricted zone in Scotland.\n(3) The Scottish Ministers may in declaring a restricted zone declare that an area around infected premises is a protection zone and the area beyond that protection zone is a surveillance zone.\n(4) A surveillance zone must not include any area in which vaccination against bluetongue using live attenuated vaccine has been carried out in the twelve month period before confirmation of bluetongue.\n(5) A person must not move an animal out of a protection zone except as authorised by a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers.\n(6) A person must not move an animal, embryo, ovum or semen out of a restricted zone except as authorised by a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers.\n(7) A person must not move an animal out of or within a restricted zone if it is showing clinical signs of bluetongue on the day of movement.\n(8) The Scottish Ministers must grant a licence under paragraph (5) or (6) if the movement is permitted under the Commission Regulation, and the conditions of such a licence must be such as to ensure that the movement is made in accordance with the Commission Regulation.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 16 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/16",
    "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."
}