{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2012/199",
  "legislation_title": "The Bluetongue (Scotland) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Voluntary vaccination",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may declare that in a restricted zone (or part of a restricted zone) declared under article 16 or in a free area (or part of a free area) voluntary vaccination against bluetongue is permitted.\n(2) A declaration under paragraph (1) may be made only if—\n(a) it is based on the result of a specific risk assessment carried out by the Scottish Ministers; ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Where a declaration under paragraph (1) provides for the use of live attenuated vaccine in a free area (or part of a free area), the Scottish Ministers must declare a restricted zone comprising—\n(a) a protection zone of at least the area in which vaccination may take place; and\n(b) a surveillance zone.\n(4) Where a declaration under paragraph (1) is made, a person may vaccinate an animal against bluetongue in accordance with it.\n(5) Premises partly inside an area declared under paragraph (1) are treated as being wholly inside that area.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 24(1) inserted (3.10.2026) by The Bluetongue (Scotland) Amendment Order 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/281), arts. 1(1), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in art. 24(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Health (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/71), regs. 1(1)(b), 31(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 24(2)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Health (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/71), regs. 1(1)(b), 31(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 24(3) inserted (3.10.2026) by The Bluetongue (Scotland) Amendment Order 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/281), arts. 1(1), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 24 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/24",
    "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."
}