Regulation 12 Appointment of official veterinary surgeons and official fish inspectors

The Secretary of State must appoint suitably trained veterinary surgeons to be official veterinary surgeons for any F1border control post authorised to import animals.

The district council for an area with a border control post authorised to import products must appoint suitably trained veterinary surgeons to be official veterinary surgeons for that post.

The appointment under paragraph (2) may be made by the Secretary of State rather than the district council if the approval for the border control post only permits the importation of animal by-products.

If the approval for the border control post permits the importation of any fishery products, aquatic invertebrates, live bivalve molluscs, live F3echinoderms, live tunicates and live marine gastropods and composite products containing processed fishery products intended for human consumption, the enforcement authority may appoint suitably trained environmental health officers or other persons who are appropriately trained to perform official controls or certain tasks related to other official activities, to be official fish inspectors for that post in relation to such products, and any such official fish inspector has all the powers of an official veterinary surgeon in relation to those products.