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Article 4 Prohibitions in relation to specified animal pathogensF1F2

England, Wales and Scotland

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

(1)

No person shall have in his possession—

(a)

any animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order; or

(b)

any carrier in which he knows such a pathogen is present,

except under the authority of a licence issued by the Secretary of State.

(2)

No person shall deliberately introduce into any animal any animal pathogen specified in either Part 1 or Part 2 of that Schedule, except under the authority of a licence issued by the Secretary of State.

(3)

Paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to article 5.

(4)

If any person has in his possession any thing in respect of which he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of that Schedule is present, and does not have a licence in respect of that pathogen, he shall forthwith notify a veterinary inspector.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Order revoked (W.) (10.5.2008) by The Specified Animal Pathogens (Wales) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1270), arts. 1, 12; and Order revoked (S.) (1.3.2009) by The Specified Animal Pathogens (Scotland) Order 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/45), arts. 1(1), 12(a)

F2

Art. 4 substituted (E.) (4.7.2006) by The Specified Animal Pathogens (Amendment) (England) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1506), arts. 1(1), 2(2)