{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-13B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-13B.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2008/1090",
  "legislation_title": "The Bluetongue (Wales) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/13B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13B",
  "heading": "Measures to reduce the risk of incursion or spread of bluetongue virus",
  "text": "(1) If, after carrying out a risk assessment, the Welsh Ministers consider such action necessary to reduce the risk of incursion of bluetongue virus into any part of Wales or spread of bluetongue virus to animals or germinal products from any source, the Welsh Ministers may—\n(a) declare a bluetongue prevention zone in all or any part of Wales; and\n(b) serve, or require an inspector to serve, a notice on the occupier of premises or keeper of animals at premises where animals or germinal products specified in the notice are kept.\n(2) A notice or declaration under paragraph (1) may—\n(a) impose such measures as the Welsh Ministers consider necessary to reduce the risk of incursion of bluetongue virus into any part of Wales or spread of bluetongue virus;\n(b) subject to paragraph (3), restrict the movement of animals or germinal products—\n(i) within a bluetongue prevention zone; or\n(ii) from premises within the bluetongue prevention zone to an area which is not in the bluetongue prevention zone.\n(3) No person may move animals or germinal products within or from a bluetongue prevention zone except under the authority of a licence granted by a veterinary inspector or by an inspector or officer of the Welsh Ministers acting under the direction of a veterinary inspector.\n(4) No person may move animals within or from a bluetongue prevention zone if the animal shows clinical signs of bluetongue on or before the day of transport.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 13A, 13B inserted (23.9.2024) by The Exotic Disease (Application and Amendment of Enactments) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/971), arts. 1(2), 4(11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/1090/regulation/13B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:58:23.338709+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."
}