The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Movement restrictions

4.—(1) For the purposes of Article 12(1) and point 2(2) of Annex VII, of the EU TSE Regulation, following suspicion of a TSE in a sheep or goat (“a suspected animal”) (whether in a live animal or through the monitoring under Annex III of the EU TSE Regulation), an inspector—

(a) must serve a notice prohibiting the movement of any other sheep or goat onto or from the premises on which the suspected sheep or goat is kept if the inspector considers that the sheep or goat was exposed to a TSE on those premises;

(b) may serve a notice prohibiting the movement onto or from any premises of any sheep or goat if there is evidence that the suspected sheep or goat was exposed to a TSE on those premises;

(c) may serve a notice prohibiting movement onto or from any premises where an animal specified in point 1(b) of Annex VII to the EU TSE Regulation is kept or where the inspector suspects such an animal is kept; and

(d) must serve a notice prohibiting the movement of milk or milk products derived from any sheep or goat present on any holding referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c).

(2) Movements of animals or products restricted under this Schedule are only permitted in accordance with regulation 16.

(3) A notice served under paragraph (1)(d) does not prohibit the use of milk or milk products within the premises.

(4) A notice referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to (d) remains in force until one of the paragraphs 5, 6, 7 and 9 applies.