# The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Regulation 36: Amendments to Article 33


In Article 33—
(a) the existing paragraph becomes paragraph 1;
(b) in that paragraph—
(i) in point (a), for “Directive 2009/156/EC” substitute “the EU Directive”;
(ii) for point (b) substitute—
“(b) situated in—
(i) a member State that is not a member State free of African horse sickness or in a part of the territory of a member State that is considered, in accordance with Article 5(2) of the EU Directive, as infected with African horse sickness;
(ii) a constituent territory of the United Kingdom that is not free of African horse sickness.”;
(c) after point (b), insert—
“(c) subject to a declaration made by the appropriate authority, the Food Standards Agency or Food Standards Scotland, in accordance with regulation 29(2) of the Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011 or equivalent legislation in force in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland;
(d) subject to an order under section 1 of the Animal Health Act 1981 preventing the introduction into or spreading of disease within Great Britain or any of the constituent territories of the United Kingdom, or under the equivalent legislation in force in Northern Ireland.
2. For the purposes of paragraph 1(b)(ii), a constituent territory of the United Kingdom is not free of African horse sickness if—
(a) clinical, serological (in unvaccinated animals) or epidemiological evidence has revealed the presence of African horse sickness in that constituent territory of the United Kingdom in the past two years;
(b) vaccination against African horse sickness has been carried out in that constituent territory of the United Kingdom in the past 12 months.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111178089/regulation/36 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equine-records-identification-and-movement-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-36
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