Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1988. The changes of substance made to that Order are as follows:—
section 32 of the Animal Health Act 1981 (power to slaughter animals) is applied to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (article 2(b));
where a veterinary inspector is of the opinion (following a veterinary enquiry) that a bovine animal is affected, or suspected of being affected, with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, he is required to serve a notice in Form A containing movement restrictions on the owner or person in charge of that animal (article 2(c)(i));
a notice in Form A will remain in force for a period of 28 days from the date specified in the notice unless renewed or withdrawn earlier by a notice in Form B (article 2(c)(ii)); and
a veterinary inspector is required to serve a notice of intended slaughter (in Form C) on the owner of any bovine animal which is affected, or suspected of being affected, with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and which the Minister proposes to cause to be slaughtered under the powers conferred on him by section 32 of the Act in its application to that disease (article 2(e)).