Paragraph 16 Breeding in a protection zone
No person shall carry out breeding of susceptible animals by means of itinerant service in a protection zone.
No person shall carry out artificial insemination of animals or collect any embryo or ovum in a protection zone except in compliance with sub paragraph (3) or sub paragraph (4).
Artificial insemination of a susceptible animal complies with this sub paragraph if it satisfies the following requirements–
it is carried out by the occupier of the premises where the animal is kept (or any employee of such occupier);
the semen used has not left the premises since the protection zone was declared, or was delivered to the occupier or the occupier's employee at a place outside the premises from a semen collection centre;
it is carried out using equipment which has been on the premises since the protection zone has been declared.
Artificial insemination of a non-susceptible animal or the collection of embryos, or ova from such animal complies with this sub paragraph if–
it is carried out by the occupier of the premises where the animal is kept (or any employee of such occupier); and
either no susceptible animals are kept on the premises or (in the case of artificial insemination only) it has been authorised by a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers.
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.