Article 10 Amendment to the Importation of Animal Pathogens Order 1980

The Importation of Animal Pathogens Order^f1 is hereby amended in accordance with this article.

In article 3 of that Order, for the definition of “carrier” there shall be substituted the following definition:

• ““carrier” means any living creature except man which may carry or transmit an animal pathogen or the tissue, cell culture, body fluid, excreta, carcase or part of a carcase of such creature by or by means of which an animal pathogen may be transmitted”.

After article 5 of that Order there shall be added the following provision:

“Further exception to prohibitions

5A

The prohibition contained in article 4(1) of this Order shall not apply to the importation of any animal pathogen or carrier imported from another Member State after 1st Janaury 1994 in accordance with the provisions of the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations 1993^f2, subject to the conditions in those Regulations; but for the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that this does not affect the requirement for any person possessing such animal pathogen or carrier to do so in accordance with a licence issued under the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1993.”.