# The Diseases of Animals (Seizure) Order 1993, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This 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.
These diseases are:
African Horse Sickness
African Swine Fever
Aujeszky’s Disease
Blue Tongue
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Cattle Plague (Rinderpest)
Classical Swine Fever
Contagious agalactia
Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia
Contagious Epididymitis
Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
Epizootic Haemorrhagic Virus Disease
Foot and Mouth Disease in ruminants and swine
Fowl Cholera
Fowl Paralysis
Fowl Pest in any of its forms, including Newcastle Disease and Fowl plague
Fowl Pox
Fowl Typhoid
Goat Pox
Infectious Bronchitis in poultry
Infectious Laryngotracheitis in poultry
Lumpy Skin Disease
Peste des Petits Ruminants
Psitticosis or Ornithosis
Pullorum Disease in poultry
Rabies
Rift Valley Fever
Sheep Pox
Swine Vesicular Disease
Teschen disease
Tuberculosis in cattle
Tuberculosis in deer
Vesicular Stomatitis.
In addition to the above, the slaughter provisions apply to any poultry or animals infected with organisms of the brucella or salmonella genera.
The 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1685/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-seizure-order-1993/note
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