Article 32 Protection zones and surveillance zones: general provisions

(1)

The Scottish Ministers may, if they consider necessary, review the extent of any protection or surveillance zone declared.

(2)

In determining the geographical extent of a protection zone and a surveillance zone, the Scottish Ministers shall take into account administrative boundaries, natural barriers, supervision facilities and information as to probable dispersion of the disease virus by air or other means.

(3)

Any premises which are partly inside and partly outside a protection zone shall be deemed to be wholly inside that zone.

(4)

Any premises (except premises which are also partly inside a protection zone) which are partly inside and partly outside a surveillance zone shall be deemed to be wholly inside that zone.

(5)

Any protection zone or surveillance zone is an infected area for the purposes of the Act.

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.