Article 57 Offences: no knowledge of restriction or requirement
No person shall be guilty of failing to comply with a restriction or requirement imposed by declaration of–
a temporary control zone;
a supplementary movement control zone;
a protection zone;
a surveillance zone;
a restricted zone; or
a wild animal infected zone
if that person shows to the court's satisfaction that the person did not know of that restriction or requirement and that the person could not with reasonable diligence have obtained knowledge of it.
Notes on the whole SSI
Textual amendments
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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.