Paragraph 2 Pleuro-pneumonia:

(1)

The Department shall cause to be slaughtered all F1susceptible animals affected with pleuro-pneumonia.

(2)

The Department may in any case cause to be slaughtered—

(a)

any F2susceptible animal suspected of being affected with pleuro-pneumonia; and

(b)

any susceptible animal which are or which have been in contact with susceptible animal affected with pleuro-pneumonia, or which appear to the Department to have been in any way exposed to the infection of pleuro-pneumonia.

(3)

Where the Department has decided that any F3susceptible animal is to be slaughtered under this paragraph, the Department shall, if the owner of such susceptible animal by notice so requires, cause the same to be slaughtered within twenty-one days after the receipt of the notice.

F4(4)

In this paragraph, “susceptible animal” means animal of the genus Ovis, Capra, Gazella, Bison, Bos or Bubalus, or of the species Syncerus cafer.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(1) substituted (8.11.2023) by The Specified Diseases (Notification) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/179), arts. 1, 4(2)(a)(i)
F2: Words in Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(2) substituted (8.11.2023) by The Specified Diseases (Notification) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/179), arts. 1, 4(2)(a)(i)
F3: Words in Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(3) substituted (8.11.2023) by The Specified Diseases (Notification) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/179), arts. 1, 4(2)(a)(ii)
F4: Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(4) inserted (8.11.2023) by The Specified Diseases (Notification) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/179), arts. 1, 4(2)(a)(iii)