{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-wales-order-2011/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-wales-order-2011/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/692",
  "legislation_title": "The Tuberculosis (Wales) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-wales-order-2011",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Veterinary improvement notice",
  "text": "(1) A veterinary inspector may serve a notice (“veterinary improvement notice”) (“hysbysiad gwella milfeddygol”) on the keeper of a non-bovine animal requiring the keeper, by a date specified in the notice, to do things or to refrain from doing things for the purpose of preventing the spread of disease and, in particular, may impose any of the requirements mentioned in paragraph (2).\n(2) The requirements that may be imposed by means of a veterinary improvement notice include—\n(a) erecting fences, gates and stiles;\n(b) adopting effective methods of excluding groups of animals from specified parts of the premises;\n(c) protecting silage, feed storage and feeding areas from wildlife including birds;\n(d) taking reasonable steps to ensure that people who enter the keeper’s land take reasonable precautions against the spread of disease.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 in force at 31.3.2011, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/692/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:51:16.949003+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."
}