# The Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, Article 14: Orders relating to infected places and areas


. . . 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 licences subject to such conditions as may be specified in the licences.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1115/article/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-14
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