{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zoonoses-order-1989/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zoonoses-order-1989/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/285",
  "legislation_title": "The Zoonoses Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zoonoses-order-1989",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Infected places",
  "text": "(1) Where a veterinary inspector has reasonable grounds for supposing that there is or has been on any premises an animal or any poultry or feedingstuff in which a designated organism is or was present, or the carcase of such an animal or poultry or a product derived from such an animal or poultry, he may serve a notice on the occupier of the premises declaring them to be an infected place.\n(2) A veterinary inspector may, by the same notice as is referred to in paragraph (1) above or by a further notice served in the like manner, –\n(a) prohibit the movement of any animal, poultry, carcase, product or feedingstuff into or out of the infected place except under the authority of a licence issued by a veterinary inspector and in accordance with any conditions subject to which the licence is issued;\n(b) prohibit the movement out of the infected place of any dung, droppings, equipment, utensil, appliance, vehicle or other thing except under the authority of a licence issued by a veterinary inspector and in accordance with any conditions subject to which the licence is issued;\n(c) require any animal, poultry, carcase, product or feedingstuff specified in the notice to be detained in such part of the infected place as may be so specified, except that any such animal, poultry, carcase or product or feedingstuff may be moved out of the infected place under the authority of a licence issued by a veterinary inspector and in accordance with any conditions subject to which the licence is issued;\n(d) require any animal, poultry, carcase, product or feedingstuff specified in the notice to be isolated from any other animal, poultry, carcase, product or feedingstuff or from human beings (other than those persons whose presence is necessary for the purposes of providing care and attention for them).\n(3) A notice served under this article may at any time be revoked or varied by a further notice served by a veterinary inspector on the occupier of the infected place.\n(4) Any notice which may be served or licence which may be issued by a veterinary inspector under this article may be served or issued by an inspector of the Minister acting under the direction of a veterinary inspector.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/285/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:49:20.781936+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."
}