{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-wales-order-2006/article-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-wales-order-2006/article-40.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/179",
  "legislation_title": "The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Wales) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-wales-order-2006",
  "path": "article/40",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Presence of the disease in wild animals and declaration of a wild animal infected zone",
  "text": "(1) The National Assembly must, on confirmation of the disease in any wild animal in Wales, declare a wild animal infected zone in Wales.\n(2) The National Assembly may, if it is satisfied that disease is present in a wild animal in England or Scotland, declare a wild animal infected zone in Wales.\n(3) A wild animal infected zone may be declared in such part of Wales and of such size as the National Assembly considers necessary to prevent the spread of disease.\n(4) A wild animal infected zone must remain in effect until—\n(a) such date as may be stated in the declaration; or\n(b) it is removed by further declaration of the National Assembly.\n(5) Any premises which are partly inside and partly outside a wild animal infected zone are deemed to be wholly inside that zone.\n(6) Any wild animal infected zone is an infected area for the purposes of the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/179/article/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:04:37.897672+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."
}