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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zoonoses-amendment-coronavirus-scotland-order-2021/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2021/83",
  "legislation_title": "The Zoonoses Amendment (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Order 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zoonoses-amendment-coronavirus-scotland-order-2021",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Zoonoses Order 1989 (“the Zoonoses Order”), which makes provision for the control of organisms carried in animals which constitute a risk to human health.\nArticle 2(3) of the Order amends article 4 of the Zoonoses Order, which designates organisms for the purposes of section 29 of the Animal Health Act 1981 on the control of zoonoses. It designates severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as an organism carried in animals which constitutes a risk to human health, and provides for provisions of that Act (and accordingly the Zoonoses Order) to apply in relation to the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in any kind of mammal (except man) as if the presence of SARS-CoV-2 were a disease to which that Act applied.\nArticle 2(4) amends article 8 of the Zoonoses Order, which concerns the reporting of the presence of designated organisms. It amends article 8 to require the reporting of the former presence as well as the presence of a designated organism. It also amends article 8 to require that a report must be made to a veterinary officer of the Scottish Minsters by the person in charge of a laboratory where the presence or former presence of SARS-CoV-2 in any kind of mammal (except man) is identified by a laboratory examination, or by the person carrying out the examination where the presence is identified by an examination carried out elsewhere than at a laboratory.\nArticle 2(5) amends schedule 2 of the Zoonoses Order to specify further particulars to be contained in a report required by article 8 of the Zoonoses Order.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/83/note",
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  "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."
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