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

Measures applicable in respect of protection zones and surveillance zones

32.—(1) The measures in Parts I and II of Schedule 5 apply in respect of a protection zone and those in Parts I and III of Schedule 5 apply in respect of a surveillance zone.

(2) The Department may declare that any other measure it considers fit so as to prevent the spread of disease applies in respect of the whole or any part of any protection zone or surveillance zone and any such measure shall then apply in respect of that protection zone or surveillance zone or that part of it.

(3) The Department shall not make a declaration under paragraph (2), unless it is satisfied that the measures to be applied by that declaration are—

(a) necessary to prevent the spread of disease; and

(b) a proportionate method of preventing such spread, taking into account the epidemiological, animal husbandry, commercial and social conditions in the protection zone or surveillance zone.

(4) The Department shall take into account the recommended measures in paragraph 2.2 of Annex VI to the Directive before restricting the movement of horses in a surveillance zone by a declaration under paragraph (2).

(5) An area shall remain a protection or surveillance zone until the declaration creating it is amended or revoked in accordance with regulation 34.