{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1996/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1996/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2628",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Notification of specified diseases",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the Animal Health Act 1981 in its application to this article—\n(a) the definition of “animals” in section 87(1) is hereby extended to comprise ungulates; and\n(b) the definition of “disease” in section 88(1) is hereby extended to comprise the diseases listed in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order.\n(2) A person who has in his possession or under his charge an animal or carcase which he knows or reasonably suspects is infected with a disease listed in Schedule 1 to this Order shall give notice of that fact as soon as practicable in accordance with article 5(1) below.\n(3) A veterinary surgeon or other person who, in the course of his duties, examines or inspects an animal or carcase which he reasonably believes is infected with a disease listed in Schedule 1 to this Order shall give notice of that fact as soon as practicable in accordance with article 5(1) below.\n(4) A person who, following analysis by him of a sample taken from an animal or carcase, reasonably suspects that the animal or carcase is infected with any of the diseases listed in Schedule 1 or Schedule 1A to this Order shall give notice of that fact as soon as practicable in accordance with article 5(1) below.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E. in relation to Bluetongue) (19.2.2003) by The Bluetongue Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/130), art. 18; and revoked (W. in relation to Bluetongue) (19.2.2003) by The Bluetongue (Wales) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/326), art. 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(4) inserted (E.) (21.4.2021) by The Specified Diseases (Notification and Control) (Amendment, etc.) (England) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/443), arts. 1(1), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 21.10.1996, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision applies to England only; separate versions have been created for Wales and Scotland"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2628/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:56.791972+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."
}