# The Tuberculosis (Wales) Order 2010, Article 15: Prohibitions

Extent: E+W

(1) No person may vaccinate a bovine animal against tuberculosis without the written consent of the Welsh Ministers.
(2) No person may treat a bovine animal for tuberculosis without the written consent of the Welsh Ministers.
(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.
(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.
(4) No person may interfere with or obstruct the application or the reading of a relevant test.
(5) No person may interfere with or obstruct an epidemiological investigation.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2010/1379/article/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-wales-order-2010/article-15
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