Article 15 Seizure and destruction of imports

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

art.15 rev. in pt. by The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2000 art.2(7)
art. 15-18 revoked by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Regulations 2006 Sch. 10
art.15 rev. in pt. by The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) Order 2000 art.2(8)
art.15 rev. in pt. by The Specified Risk Material Order Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2000 reg.2(7)

(1)

Where an inspector has reasonable grounds for suspecting that any class I specified risk material or any food or feeding stuff has been imported in contravention of article 6, he may at any time seize or cause to be seized that material, food or feeding stuff, or anything into which it has subsequently been incorporated.

(2)

A veterinary inspector may destroy anything seized pursuant to paragraph (1) above without compensation.