{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-scotland-order-2006/article-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-scotland-order-2006/article-39.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/44",
  "legislation_title": "The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-scotland-order-2006",
  "path": "article/39",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Confirmation of the disease in wild animals and declaration of a wild animal infected zone",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers shall, on confirmation of the disease in any wild animal in Great Britain declare an area to be a wild animal infected zone in such part of Scotland and of such size as they think fit to prevent the spread of disease.\n(2) A wild animal infected zone shall remain in effect until–\n(a) the Scottish Ministers amend the declaration to exclude that area; or\n(b) the Scottish Ministers revoke the declaration.\n(3) Any amendment or revocation of a declaration creating a wild animal infected zone shall refer to that declaration and state the date and time it is to take effect.\n(4) Any premises which are partly inside and partly outside a wild animal infected zone shall be deemed to be wholly inside that zone.\n(5) Any wild animal infected zone is an infected area for the purposes of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/44/article/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:21:43.663517+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."
}