Article 15 ProhibitionsI1
England and Wales
No person may vaccinate a bovine animal against tuberculosis without the written consent of the Welsh Ministers.
No person may treat a bovine animal for tuberculosis without the written consent of the Welsh Ministers.
No person may take a sample from a bovine animal for the purpose of diagnosis of tuberculosis without the written consent of the Welsh Ministers.
No person may perform a test for tuberculosis on a bovine animal F2or on any sample taken from any such animal except with the written consent of the Welsh Ministers and a person to whom any such consent is given must report the results immediately to the Welsh Ministers.
No person may interfere with or obstruct the application or the reading of a relevant test.
No person may interfere with or obstruct an epidemiological investigation.
Where a relevant test has been applied to a bovine animal, a person may not, except under the authority of a licence issued by a veterinary inspector, move that animal from the premises at which the test was administered until a negative result has been read by an inspector or approved veterinary surgeon and the keeper has been informed of that result.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Art. 15(2A) inserted (1.2.2024) by The Tuberculosis (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1423), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(a) (with art. 3)
- F2
Words in art. 15(3) inserted (1.4.2016) by The Tuberculosis (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/328), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 9(1) (with art. 3)
- F3
Art. 15(5) inserted (1.4.2016) by The Tuberculosis (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/328), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 9(2) (with art. 3)
- F4
Art. 15(6) inserted (1.2.2024) by The Tuberculosis (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1423), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(b) (with art. 3)
Commencement
- I1
Art. 15 in force at 25.5.2010, see art. 1