{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-wales-order-2010/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-wales-order-2010/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2010/1379",
  "legislation_title": "The Tuberculosis (Wales) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-wales-order-2010",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Prohibitions",
  "text": "(1) No person may vaccinate a bovine animal against tuberculosis without the written consent of the Welsh Ministers.\n(2) No person may treat a bovine animal for tuberculosis without the written consent of the Welsh Ministers.\n(2A) 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.\n(3) No person may perform a test for tuberculosis on a bovine animal or 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.\n(4) No person may interfere with or obstruct the application or the reading of a relevant test.\n(5) No person may interfere with or obstruct an epidemiological investigation.\n(6) 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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 15 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/15",
    "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."
}