{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2008/1090",
  "legislation_title": "The Bluetongue (Wales) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Use of vaccines",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may grant a specific or general licence permitting the use of ... vaccines against bluetongue in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may declare a vaccination zone in which any occupier of premises or keeper of animals must ensure the vaccination of their animals ... vaccines and comply with any other measures related to either vaccination or vaccine specified in that declaration.\n(3) Where a zone is declared under paragraph (2), a veterinary inspector or by an inspector or officer of the Welsh Ministers acting under the direction of a veterinary inspector may serve a notice on the occupier of premises or the keeper of animals on premises requiring that occupier or keeper to ensure the vaccination ... vaccines of animals at the premises.\n(4) The Welsh Ministers may only grant a licence under paragraph (1) or declare a zone under paragraph (2) if the decision to use the vaccine is based on the result of a specific risk assessment carried out by the Welsh Ministers.\n(5) Whenever live attenuated vaccines are to be used, the Welsh Ministers must declare—\n(a) a protection zone consisting of at least the vaccination area; and\n(b) a surveillance zone extending beyond the limits of the protection zone in which no animals have been vaccinated with live attenuated vaccines against bluetongue within the last 12 months.\n(6) No person may vaccinate against bluetongue using live attenuated vaccine in a surveillance zone declared under this regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3 substituted (10.10.2012) by The Bluetongue (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2403), regs. 1(3), 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1) omitted (23.9.2024) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Application and Amendment of Enactments) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/971), arts. 1(2), 4(15)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(2) omitted (23.9.2024) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Application and Amendment of Enactments) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/971), arts. 1(2), 4(15)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(3) inserted (23.9.2024) by The Exotic Disease (Application and Amendment of Enactments) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/971), arts. 1(2), 4(15)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(3) omitted (23.9.2024) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Application and Amendment of Enactments) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/971), arts. 1(2), 4(15)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 19(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Exotic Diseases in Animals (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/371), regs. 1(2), 8; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/1090/regulation/19",
    "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."
}