{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-in-specified-animals-scotland-order-2015/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-in-specified-animals-scotland-order-2015/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/327",
  "legislation_title": "The Tuberculosis in Specified Animals (Scotland) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-in-specified-animals-scotland-order-2015",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Notification of disease in carcases of wild deer",
  "text": "(1) Any person who—\n(a) is the keeper of the carcase of a wild deer and who knows or suspects that that carcase is or may be the carcase of an affected animal or a suspected animal; or\n(b) in the course of practice as a veterinary surgeon, examines or inspects the carcase of a wild deer and, following such examination or inspection, knows or suspects that the carcase is or may be that of an affected animal or a suspected animal,\nmust immediately inform the Scottish Ministers of such knowledge or suspicion.\n(2) Following the giving of the information under paragraph (1), and prior to the conclusion of a veterinary inquiry under article 6 (veterinary inquiry as to the existence of disease) or the taking of a diagnostic sample from the carcase under the direction of a veterinary inspector, the keeper must—\n(a) detain the carcase on the premises on which it was located at the time of the giving of the information; and\n(b) isolate the carcase as far as practicable from other animals.\n(3) If the carcase is in a slaughterhouse, the operator of the slaughterhouse must keep it isolated from other carcases of slaughtered animals.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 9.10.2015, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/327/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:27:43.450770+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."
}