{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-seizure-order-1993/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-seizure-order-1993/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1685",
  "legislation_title": "The Diseases of Animals (Seizure) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-seizure-order-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order extends the powers of inspectors to seize things (other than live animals) by means of which diseases which attract the slaughter provisions of the Animal Health Act 1981 may be spread.\nThese diseases are:\nAfrican Horse Sickness\nAfrican Swine Fever\nAujeszky’s Disease\nBlue Tongue\nBovine Spongiform Encephalopathy\nCattle Plague (Rinderpest)\nClassical Swine Fever\nContagious agalactia\nContagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia\nContagious Epididymitis\nEnzootic Bovine Leukosis\nEpizootic Haemorrhagic Virus Disease\nFoot and Mouth Disease in ruminants and swine\nFowl Cholera\nFowl Paralysis\nFowl Pest in any of its forms, including Newcastle Disease and Fowl plague\nFowl Pox\nFowl Typhoid\nGoat Pox\nInfectious Bronchitis in poultry\nInfectious Laryngotracheitis in poultry\nLumpy Skin Disease\nPeste des Petits Ruminants\nPsitticosis or Ornithosis\nPullorum Disease in poultry\nRabies\nRift Valley Fever\nSheep Pox\nSwine Vesicular Disease\nTeschen disease\nTuberculosis in cattle\nTuberculosis in deer\nVesicular Stomatitis.\nIn addition to the above, the slaughter provisions apply to any poultry or animals infected with organisms of the brucella or salmonella genera.\nThe Order revokes the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) Order 1964, S.I. 1964/1255, the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) (Amendment) Order 1972, S.I. 1972/2041, and the Diseases of Animals (Seizure of Carcases, etc.) (Amendment) Order 1983, S.I. 1983/346.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1685/note",
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  },
  "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."
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