Article 4 Notification of disease

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 4(1) words substituted by Animal Health (Divisional Veterinary Managers) 2009 art. 2(1) Sch. 1
art. 4(2)(a)(b) words substituted by Animal Health (Divisional Veterinary Managers) 2009 art. 2(1) Sch. 1
art. 4(3)(a)-(c) words substituted by Animal Health (Divisional Veterinary Managers) 2009 art. 2(1) Sch. 1
art. 4 words substituted by Animal Health Orders (Divisional Veterinary Manager Amendment) 1995 Sch. 1 Pt. 1
art. 4(1) words substituted by Animal Health (Divisional Veterinary Managers) 2010 art. 2(1) Sch. 1
art. 4(2)(a)(b) words substituted by Animal Health (Divisional Veterinary Managers) 2010 art. 2(1) Sch. 1
art. 4(3)(a)-(c) words substituted by Animal Health (Divisional Veterinary Managers) 2010 art. 2(1) Sch. 1
art. 4(1) words substituted by Animal Health 2013 art. 7(3)(a)
art. 4(2)(a)(b) words substituted by Animal Health 2013 art. 7(3)(a)
art. 4(3)(a)(b) words substituted by Animal Health 2013 art. 7(3)(a)
art. 4(3)(c) words substituted by Animal Health 2013 art. 7(3)(a)

(1)

A person who has in his possession or under his charge any horse or carcase which is affected or suspected of being affected with disease (other than contagious equine metritis), and any veterinary surgeon or other person who in the course of his duties examines or inspects any such horse or carcase shall, with all practicable speed, notify the fact to a member of the police force for the area in which the horse or carcase is, or to an inspector, or to the Divisional Veterinary Officer.

(2)

Where notification under paragraph (1) above is given to a member of a police force or to an inspector of the local authority he shall immediately transmit the information contained in the notification by the most expeditious means—

(a)

in the case of a member of a police force to the Divisional Veterinary Officer and to an inspector of the local authority; and

(b)

in the case of an inspector of the local authority, to the Divisional Veterinary Officer.

(3)

Any person who, in the course of examining at a laboratory a sample of any kind originating from a horse or carcase, isolates an organism which he knows or suspects to be an organism which causes contagious equine metritis shall—

(a)

with all practicable speed notify the fact to the Divisional Veterinary Officer;

(b)

when giving such notice provide the Divisional Veterinary Officer (in so far as he is able to do so) with the following information—

(i)

his name and address,

(ii)

the name and address of the laboratory at which the organism, or suspected organism, was isolated,

(iii)

the identity of the horse and the name and address of the person in possession or charge of the horse,

(iv)

the date on which the sample was taken from the horse,

(v)

the date on which the organism, or suspected organism, was isolated,

(vi)

such further information as the veterinary inspector may reasonably require; and

(c)

make available to the Divisional Veterinary Officer a culture of the organism.