{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-england-order-2006/schedule-5/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-england-order-2006/schedule-5/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/182",
  "legislation_title": "The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (England) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-england-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Breeding in a protection zone",
  "text": "(1) No person shall carry out breeding of susceptible animals by means of itinerant service in a protection zone.\n(2) No person shall carry out artificial insemination of animals or collect any embryo or ovum in a protection zone except in compliance with sub-paragraph (3) or (4).\n(3) Artificial insemination of a susceptible animal complies with this sub-paragraph if it satisfies the following requirements—\n(a) it is carried out by the occupier of the premises where the animal is kept (or any employee of that occupier);\n(b) the semen used has not left the premises since the protection zone was declared, or was delivered to the occupier or his employee at a place outside the premises from a semen collection centre;\n(c) it is carried out using equipment which has been on the premises since the protection zone was declared.\n(4) Artificial insemination of a non-susceptible animal or the collection of embryos or ova from such an animal complies with this sub-paragraph if—\n(a) it is carried out by the occupier of the premises where the animal is kept (or any employee of that occupier); and\n(b) either no susceptible animals are kept on the premises or (in the case of artificial insemination only) it is carried out under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/182/schedule/5/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:00.107461+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."
}