{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-fish-order-1973/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-fish-order-1973/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1973/2093",
  "legislation_title": "The Diseases of Fish Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-fish-order-1973",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Modifications of certain definitions in Act",
  "text": "For the definitions of the expressions “infected” and “infected waters” contained in section 10(1) of the Act (as substituted by the Diseases of Fish Order 1966)) there shall be substituted the following definitions, that is to say—\n“‘infected’ means, in relation to fish, infected with any of the diseases respectively known as furunculosis, columnaris, infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN), viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS or Egtved disease), Myxosoma (Lentospora) cerebralis (whirling disease), infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN), ulcerative dermal necrosis (UDN) and infectious dropsy of cyprinids (IDC or IAD) in any of its forms including spring viraemia and erythrodermatitis;\n‘infected waters’ means waters in which any of the diseases mentioned in the definition of the expression “infected” exists among fish, or in which the causative organisms of any of those diseases are present; ”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1966 II, p. 2284)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1984/301",
      "affecting_title": "The Diseases of Fish (Definition of \"Infected\") Order 1984"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/2093/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:56:31.100195+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."
}