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Article 14 Orders relating to infected places and areas

F1. . . the Department may by order—

(a)

prescribe and regulate the publication by placards, handbills or otherwise, in the immediate neighbourhood of a place or area declared infected, of the fact of such declaration;

(b)

prohibit or regulate the movement of animals or poultry and persons into, within or out of, an infected place or area;

(c)

prescribe and regulate the isolation or separation of animals or poultry being in an infected place or area;

(d)

prohibit or regulate the removal or carcases or other things, whether animate of inanimate, into, within, or out of an infected place or area;

(e)

prescribe and regulate the destruction, burial, disposal or treatment of carcases or other things, whether animate or inanimate, being in, or removed out of, an infected place or area;

(f)

prescribe and regulate the cleansing and disinfection—

(i)

of infected places and areas;

(ii)

of receptacles or vehicles used for the confinement or conveyance of animals or poultry;

(g)

prescribe and regulate the disinfection of the clothes of persons being in an infected place or area, and the use of precautions against the spreading of disease by such persons;

(h)

provide for exemptions from any such prohibitions by means of the grant of licencesF2 subject to such conditions as may be specified in the licences.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

1994 NI 6

F2

1984 NI 2