{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-import-and-export-regulations-1992/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-import-and-export-regulations-1992/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3298",
  "legislation_title": "The Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-import-and-export-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Serious threats to health in other countries",
  "text": "(1) This Regulation shall apply where the Minister or the Secretary of State learns, either under the procedures set out in Article 9 of Council Directive 89/662/EEC or Article 19 of Council Directive 90/675/EEC or through any other means of the presence in any other country of a disease referred to in Council Directive 82/894/EEC, a zoonosis or any other disease or phenomenon liable to present a serious threat to public or animal health.\n(2) In the circumstance described in paragraph (1) above, the Minister or Secretary of State may, for the purpose of preventing the spread of disease in Great Britain, by a declaration to be published in such manner as he thinks fit, give notice of the existence of any disease or zoonosis or other cause likely to constitute a serious hazard in another country, the area affected, and the types of products of animal origin affected.\n(3) Upon such declaration being made any product of animal origin entering Great Britain which is the subject of the declaration shall be in breach of the animal or public health conditions relating to the import of the product.\n(4) A declaration made under this Regulation may specify conditions under which the product which is the subject of the declaration may be imported.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3298/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:07:47.412893+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."
}