{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-wales-order-2010/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-wales-order-2010/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2010/1379",
  "legislation_title": "The Tuberculosis (Wales) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-wales-order-2010",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Pre-Movement Testing",
  "text": "(1) No person may move a bovine animal from any premises unless—\n(a) a skin test has been applied to it no more than 60 days before the date of movement; and\n(b) the results of the test have been read by an inspector or an approved veterinary surgeon and are negative.\n(1A) Where a reading of the test in paragraph (1)(b) does not reveal a negative result for tuberculosis the requirements in article 12(3A) apply.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to—\n(a) bovine animals that are less than 6 weeks old at the date of the movement;\n(b) the movement of a bovine animal to a place for veterinary treatment provided that it is returned direct to its premises of origin after the treatment, or is killed or goes direct to slaughter;\n(c) any movements specified in Schedule 2; and\n(d) any movement that is approved by the Welsh Ministers.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a)—\n(a) the 60 day period begins on the day after tuberculin is injected into the animal; and\n(b) the skin test cannot be one applied to an animal subject to a notice served under article 16 (isolation and prohibition on movement of animals) unless approved by the Welsh Ministers.\n(4) The pre-movement test must be arranged with an approved veterinary surgeon at the expense of the keeper of the bovine animal unless a test for tuberculosis has been instructed by the Welsh Ministers in accordance with article 12(1) to take place within the period mentioned in paragraph (1)(a).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 13(1)(b) inserted (6.4.2014) by The Tuberculosis (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/632), arts. 1(3), 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 13(1A) inserted (6.4.2014) by The Tuberculosis (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/632), arts. 1(3), 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 13(2)(c) substituted (1.10.2017) by The Tuberculosis (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/711), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 5(a) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 13(3) substituted (1.10.2017) by The Tuberculosis (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/711), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 5(b) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 13(4) inserted (1.4.2016) by The Tuberculosis (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/328), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 7 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 13 in force at 25.5.2010, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2010/1379/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:53:44.531330+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."
}