Paragraph 2 I1

Northern Ireland

An animal for restocking may only be introduced under the following conditions—

(a)

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

(b)

the Department must have confirmed by notice served on the occupier that it 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 animal shall either—

(i)

originate in and come from a holding where there has been no confirmed case of the 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.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 4 para. 2 in operation at 23.2.2006, see reg. 1