{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-1998/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-1998/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/463",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-1998",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibitions in relation to specified animal pathogens",
  "text": "(1) No person shall have in his possession—\n(a) any animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order; or\n(b) any carrier in which he knows such a pathogen is present,\nexcept under the authority of a licence issued by the Secretary of State.\n(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.\n(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to article 5.\n(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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "saved (W)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2001/2374",
      "affecting_title": "The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Prohibition of Vaccination) (Wales) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "saved (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/2375",
      "affecting_title": "The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Control of Vaccination) (England) Regulations 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/463/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:36:46.573954+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."
}