{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1996/article-4B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1996/article-4B.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/4B",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4B",
  "heading": "Notification of Ebola virus: England",
  "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) of the Act is extended to include relevant primates;\n(b) the definition of “disease” in section 88(1) of the Act is extended to include infection with Ebola virus.\n(2) A person who—\n(a) has a relevant primate in his possession or under his charge, and\n(b) knows or reasonably suspects that the relevant primate is infected with Ebola virus,\nmust give notice of this knowledge or suspicion as soon as practicable.\n(3) A veterinary surgeon or other person who, in the course of his duties—\n(a) examines or inspects a relevant primate, and\n(b) knows or reasonably suspects that the relevant primate is infected with Ebola virus,\nmust give notice of this knowledge or suspicion as soon as practicable.\n(4) A person who, in the course of his duties—\n(a) analyses a sample taken from a relevant primate, and\n(b) knows or reasonably suspects that the sample taken from the relevant primate is infected with Ebola virus,\nmust give notice of this knowledge or suspicion as soon as practicable.\n(5) In paragraphs (2) to (4)—\n(a) “relevant primate” means any kind of primate except man, and;\n(b) includes the carcase or any part of the carcase of a primate.\n(6) This article applies in relation to England only.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 4A, 4B 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(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2628/article/4B",
    "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."
}