Brucellosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Cleansing and disinfection generally

13.—(1) The Department may serve on the owner or occupier of any holding on which there is, or has within 56 days been, an affected or suspected animal or any animal which may have been exposed to the possibility of brucella infection or the carcase of such an animal, a notice requiring him to –

(a)cleanse and disinfect, at his own expense, and in such manner and within such period as may be specified in the notice –

(i)all or any part of his holding, and

(ii)any equipment, appliance, utensil or other thing used in connection with any such animal or carcase;

(b)soak any litter in an approved disinfectant and destroy such litter in the manner specified in the notice;

(c)dispose of washings from cleansing and disinfection carried out under sub-paragraph (a) in the manner specified in the notice;

(d)provide footbaths containing an approved disinfectant at all entrances to and exits from the holding.

(2) In this Article “washings” means any material, disinfectant or water remaining after the cleansing and disinfection has been carried out.