The Foot-and-Mouth Disease Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Declaration of supplementary movement control zone

18.—(1) When a temporary control zone has been declared, the Department may also declare a supplementary movement control zone which—

(a) shall be of such size as it considers fit to prevent the spread of disease; and

(b) shall include that temporary control zone.

(2) An area shall remain a supplementary movement control zone (or part of one) until—

(a) it becomes part of a protection zone or a surveillance zone;

(b) the declaration of the temporary control zone included within it ceases to have effect;

(c) the Department amends the declaration of the supplementary movement control zone so as to exclude that area; or

(d) the Department revokes the declaration of the supplementary movement control zone.

(3) Any amendment or revocation of a declaration creating a supplementary movement control zone shall refer to that declaration and state the date and time it is to take effect.

(4) Any premises which are partly inside and partly outside a supplementary movement control zone shall be deemed to be wholly inside it.

(5) Nothing in paragraph (4) shall deem any part of a premises outside Northern Ireland to be inside a supplementary movement control zone.

(6) A supplementary movement control zone applies in respect of—

(a) susceptible animals; and

(b) any class of non-susceptible animal specified in the declaration in question during a period also specified in that declaration which shall not exceed 72 hours from the time the declaration was made unless justified by exceptional circumstances.