{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/swine-vesicular-disease-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/swine-vesicular-disease-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/223",
  "legislation_title": "The Swine Vesicular Disease Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/swine-vesicular-disease-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Notification of suspicion of disease",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) is in possession or in charge of a pig or carcase; or\n(b) inspects or examines a pig or carcase; and\n(c) suspects the pig to be infected or the carcase to be contaminated with swine vesicular disease virus,\nshall immediately notify the Department.\n(2) A person who examines a sample taken from a pig or carcase and who—\n(a) suspects that it is contaminated with swine vesicular disease virus, or\n(b) detects evidence of antibodies to, or antigens of, that virus,\nshall immediately notify the Department.\n(3) Failure to comply with this regulation is an offence.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in operation at 30.6.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/223/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:31:28.925319+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."
}