{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-wales-regulations-2018/schedule-4/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-wales-regulations-2018/schedule-4/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2018/968",
  "legislation_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Confirmation of TSE (excluding BSE and atypical scrapie) in ovine or caprine animals",
  "text": "(1) If it is confirmed that a suspect ovine or caprine animal, or the body of an ovine or caprine animal is infected with a TSE, and BSE and atypical scrapie is excluded, the Welsh Ministers must decide in accordance with Chapter B of Annex VII whether—\n(a) to kill all ruminants on the holding;\n(b) to kill all susceptible ovine and caprine animals on the holding; or\n(c) to kill none of the animals on the holding.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers must serve a notice informing the occupier of the holding of their decision.\n(3) The notice must specify—\n(a) the identity or category of the animals (if any) to be killed and destroyed;\n(b) the identity or category of the animals (if any) to be slaughtered for human consumption;\n(c) the identity of any ovum or embryo to be destroyed;\n(d) the identity of the animals (if any) that may be retained; and\n(e) the time limit for complying with the notice.\n(4) The notice may impose further conditions, restrictions or monitoring requirements which apply in connection with the decision in accordance with Chapter B of Annex VII.\n(5) Milk and milk products derived from sheep and goats to which point 2.2.2 of Chapter B of Annex VII applies may only be used and transported in accordance with that point and failure to comply is an offence.\n(6) The appeals procedure in regulation 11 applies.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/968/schedule/4/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:09.544315+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."
}