Paragraph 2

England, Wales and Scotland

Animals for restocking may only be introduced under the following conditions—

(a)

the animals shall not come from a temporary control zone, protection zone, surveillance zone or vaccination zone;

(b)

the Secretary of State must have confirmed by notice served on the occupier that she is satisfied that no residual disease virus can be detected in the animals on the basis of clinical signs (for bovine animals or swine) or laboratory investigations (for other species);

(c)

the animals shall either—

(i)

originate on and come from premises where there has been no confirmed case of disease within 10 kilometres for at least 30 days, or

(ii)

have been tested with negative results in an assay for the detection of antibodies against the disease virus carried out on samples taken prior to restocking.