{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/1115",
  "legislation_title": "The Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Orders relating to infected places and areas",
  "text": ". . . the Department may by order—\n(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;\n(b) prohibit or regulate the movement of animals or poultry and persons into, within or out of, an infected place or area;\n(c) prescribe and regulate the isolation or separation of animals or poultry being in an infected place or area;\n(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;\n(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;\n(f) prescribe and regulate the cleansing and disinfection—\n(i) of infected places and areas;\n(ii) of receptacles or vehicles used for the confinement or conveyance of animals or poultry;\n(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;\n(h) provide for exemptions from any such prohibitions by means of the grant of licences subject to such conditions as may be specified in the licences.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1994 NI 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1984 NI 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1115/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:51:34.555607+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."
}