Regulation 21 Conservation and related measuresI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The Department may decide not to kill pigs—

(a)

kept in—

(i)

a zoo or wildlife park; or

(ii)

premises approved for the purposes of F1trade to the EU in porcine semen, ova or embryos;

(b)

kept for—

(i)

display;

(ii)

educational purposes;

(iii)

scientific research or breeding for such research; or

(iv)

purposes related to conservation of species or genetic resource.

(2)

Where the Department decides not to kill such pigs, a veterinary inspector may serve a notice on the occupier of the premises on which they are kept detailing the biosecurity arrangements that the occupier must follow to reduce the risk of spread of swine vesicular disease virus, and failure to comply with such a notice is an offence.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 21(1)(a)(ii) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Exotic Disease (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/111), regs. 1(1), 13(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 21 in operation at 30.6.2009, see reg. 1