Article 18 Declaration of supplementary movement control zone

(1)

When a temporary control zone has been declared, the Scottish Ministers may also declare a supplementary movement control zone which–

(a)

shall be of such size as they consider fit to prevent the spread of disease; and

(b)

shall include that temporary control zone.

(2)

An area shall remain a supplementary movement control zone (or part of one) until–

(a)

it becomes part of a protection zone or a surveillance zone;

(b)

the declaration of the temporary control zone included within it ceases to have effect;

(c)

the Scottish Ministers amend the declaration of the supplementary movement control zone so as to exclude that area; or

(d)

the Scottish Ministers revoke the declaration of the supplementary movement control zone.

(3)

Any amendment or revocation of a declaration creating a supplementary movement control zone shall refer to that declaration and state the date and time it is to take effect.

(4)

Any premises which are partly inside and partly outside a supplementary movement control zone shall be deemed to be wholly inside it.

(5)

A supplementary movement control zone applies in respect of–

(a)

susceptible animals; and

(b)

any class of non susceptible animal specified in the declaration in question during a period also specified in that declaration which period shall not exceed 72 hours from the time the declaration was made.

Notes on the whole SSI

Textual amendments

F1: 1981 c. 22, amended by the Animal Health Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3293). The functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86 of that Act) are now exercisable by the Scottish Ministers. They were transferred, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.