The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Export and Movement Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2007

Movement of animals

8.—(1) No person may move an animal from the restricted area to Scotland.

(2) The prohibition in paragraph (1) does not apply to a movement to an approved slaughterhouse that is–

(a) either direct or through no more than a single assembly centre; and

(b) authorised by a licence.

(3) The prohibition in paragraph (1) does not apply to a direct movement to premises–

(a) where the animal showed no clinical signs of disease on inspection immediately prior to loading, and–

(i) was subjected with negative results to a test for antibodies against disease virus carried out on a blood sample taken within 10 days prior to the date of transport from that area;

(ii) came from a holding that was subjected with negative results to serological survey pursuant to a sampling protocol suitable to detect 5% prevalence of disease with at least a 95% level of confidence; or

(iii) came from a holding situated in an area listed in columns 1 to 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2, and meets the conditions set out in Part 2 of that Schedule; or

(iv) is a pig moving within the framework of a pyramid breeding structure from an approved holding situated in the centre of a circle round that holding of at least 10 km radius in which there has been no outbreak of disease during at least 30 days prior to the date of loading; and

(b) during which the animal does not come into contact with an animal of a lower disease health status; and

(c) authorised by a licence.