{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-wales-order-2006/schedule-4/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-wales-order-2006/schedule-4/paragraph-6.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": "schedule/4/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Semen, ova and embryos collected in a protection or surveillance zone",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to semen, ova and embryos collected from susceptible animals originating in a protection zone or a surveillance zone.\n(2) No person is permitted sell or consign for sale any animal product to which this paragraph applies unless it complies with sub-paragraph (3) or sub-paragraph (4).\n(3) Semen, ova and embryos comply with this sub-paragraph if they satisfy the following requirements—\n(a) they are frozen;\n(b) they were collected and stored before the date 21 days before the earliest infection date in the protection zone, or in the case of a surveillance zone, the associated protection zone;\n(c) they have at all times been stored separately from semen, ova and embryos which were not so collected and stored.\n(4) Semen complies with this sub-paragraph if it satisfies the following requirements—\n(a) it is frozen;\n(b) it was collected and stored on or after the date 21 days before the earliest infection date in the protection zone, or in the case of a surveillance zone, the associated protection zone;\n(c) it was at all times stored separately from semen which was not so collected and stored;\n(d) it is not sold or consigned for sale until the premises on which it was collected is no longer in a protection or surveillance zone;\n(e) a veterinary inspector certifies by notice served on the owner of the semen that he has—\n(i) clinically examined all susceptible animals on the premises on which it was collected,\n(ii) subjected a serological sample from each such animal to a test for disease with a negative result, and\n(iii) subjected a serological sample taken from the donor animal 28 days or more after collection of the semen to a test for the detection of antibodies against disease with a negative result.",
  "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/schedule/4/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}