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

Regulations 8(3), 8(4),9(1), 9(2), 10(2),13(6), 14(2), 16(3), 23(6),39(2), 54 and 56(1)

SCHEDULE 1 MEASURES APPLICABLE IN RESPECT OF PREMISES ON SUSPICION AND CONFIRMATION OF DISEASE

Record keeping

1.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (4) the occupier shall create and maintain the following records in respect of the premises—

(a) the number of each species of animal;

(b) for each species of susceptible animal, the number of dead animals, the number suspected of being infected and the number suspected of being contaminated; and

(c) the stock of milk, milk products, meat, meat products, carcases, hides and skins, wool, semen, embryos, ova, slurry, manure, fodder and used litter.

(2) Records shall be kept in a form approved for the purpose by the Department.

(3) The occupier shall maintain the records kept under paragraphs (1)(a) and (1)(b) by updating them within 24 hours of any change.

(4) This paragraph does not apply to any person subject to paragraph 1 of Schedule 5.

Signs publicising infection or suspicion

2.—(1) The Department may exhibit placards, handbills, or warning notices in, or in the immediate neighbourhood of, an area declared to be infected.

(2) The occupier shall ensure that—

(a) any signs supplied by the Department are displayed in a conspicuous place at the main entrance to the premises or as directed by an inspector; or

(b) if no signs have been supplied by the Department, a sign reading “FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE – KEEP OUT” in block letters at least 10cm high is erected and maintained at every entrance to the premises;

(c) a person shall not alter, remove, obliterate or deface any placard, handbill or warning notice referred to in sub-paragraph (1).

Isolation, removal and detention of susceptible animals

3.—(1) The occupier shall ensure that a susceptible animal is isolated from any person not attending them and from non-susceptible animal.

(2) On service of a notice by an inspector the occupier shall—

(a) isolate any specified animal or group of animals from any other animal on such part of the premises as is specified; or

(b) remove any specified animal or group of animals from such part of the premises as is specified and detain that animal or those animals on such other part of the premises as is specified.

(3) A person shall not move any animals isolate or detained under a notice served under sub-paragraph (2) except under the authority of a licence granted by an inspector.

Movement of a susceptible animal

4.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph a person shall not move any susceptible animal from or to the premises.

(2) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a susceptible animal leaving contact premises (other than contact premises in a temporary control zone)—

(a) under the authority of a licence granted by an inspector and after the incubation periods for all susceptible animals on the premises have elapsed, calculated from the date of imposition of the measures in this Schedule; or

(b) where the movement is direct to a slaughterhouse for emergency slaughter and is under the authority of a licence granted by an inspector.

(3) An inspector shall not grant a licence under sub-paragraph (2)(b) unless he is satisfied that the animals to be moved have been clinically examined by a veterinary surgeon with a negative result and the slaughterhouse is the nearest slaughterhouse to the premises with capacity to slaughter the animals.

(4) A person in charge of a vehicle used to move susceptible animals under the authority of a licence granted under sub-paragraph (2)(b) shall ensure that it is cleansed and disinfected in accordance with regulation 42.

(5) Such cleansing and disinfection shall be undertaken—

(a) before loading;

(b) after loading and before leaving the premises of origin (the wheels and wheel arches of the vehicle only); and

(c) after unloading and before leaving the premises of destination.

(6) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to an animal entering or leaving a free unit (other than a free unit in a temporary control zone).

(7) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to the movement of an animal leaving infected premises for slaughter under the authority of a licence granted by an inspector.

(8) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to movement from one part of premises to another part of the same premises using a public highway not bordering other premises if it is authorised by a licence granted by an inspector.

Movement of things liable to spread disease

5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, a person shall not move from the premises any meat, carcase, meat product, milk, milk product, semen, ovum or embryo of a susceptible animal.

(2) Where the Department is satisfied that it is not reasonable to require milk to be kept on the premises, it may—

(a) serve a notice requiring milk to be destroyed on the premises; or

(b) grant a licence authorising milk to be transported from the premises to the nearest place available for disposal or treatment to destroy disease.

(3) Transport of milk under the authority of a licence granted under sub-paragraph (2)(b) shall be carried out in a vehicle which an inspector has approved as equipped to ensure that there is no risk of spreading disease.

(4) If the Department grants a licence under sub-paragraph (2)(b), it shall serve a notice on the person in charge of the premises to which milk is transported directing the method of disposal or treatment.

Movement of fodder etc.

6.  A person shall not move, or cause or permit to be moved from the premises, any fodder, utensils, wool, hide or skin, bristles, animal waste, slurry, manure, litter, pen, hurdle, vehicle or any other thing, either animate or inanimate, liable to transmit disease unless authorised to do so by a licence granted by the Department.

Movement of persons on to or off the premises

7.  A person shall not enter or leave the premises except where—

(a) his principal residence is a dwelling on the premises;

(b) his place of employment is the premises;

(c) it is necessary for the provision of emergency services; or

(d) he is authorised to do so by a licence granted by the Department.

Cleansing and disinfection of clothing, etc

8.—(1) A person shall not enter or leave the premises—

(a) wearing clothes or boots which are visibly soiled with mud, slurry, animal faeces, droppings, excretions or any similar matter; and

(b) without cleansing and disinfecting the outer surfaces of his footwear in accordance with the directions of an inspector.

(2) A person shall not enter or leave the premises—

(a) in which an infected or suspected animal or carcase is or has recently been kept; or

(b) in order to attend to or treat an animal,

unless wearing clothing and footwear approved by an inspector.

(3) A person shall not leave any part of the premises without having cleansed and disinfected his hands to the satisfaction of an inspector and having either—

(a) thoroughly cleansed and disinfected his clothing and footwear to the satisfaction of an inspector; or

(b) removed such clothing and footwear for laundering, cleansing and disinfection or disposal as an inspector reasonably directs by notice served on that person.

(4) A notice under sub-paragraph (3)(b) shall specify the required method of laundering, cleansing and disinfection or disposal.

Disinfection

9.—(1) The occupier shall provide and renew such clean water and means of disinfection as an inspector directs at every entrance to the premises and at every entrance to a building where susceptible animals are kept.

(2) The occupier shall ensure that any slurry or shed washings are disinfected in accordance with the directions of an inspector before they are permitted to drain or escape from any part of the premises where an infected animal or an animal suspected of being infected or contaminated is or has been kept.

Movement of vehicles on to or off the premises

10.  A person shall not move any vehicle on to or off the premises unless the movement is—

(a) it is necessary for the provision of emergency services, or

(b) it is authorised by a licence granted by the Department.

Movement of non-susceptible animals

11.  A person shall not move from the premises a non-susceptible animal except under the authority of a licence granted by the Department.

Control of rodents

12.  The occupier shall take steps to destroy any rats, mice and other rodents on the premises (other than pet rats, mice and other rodents).

Movement of persons

13.  Where any land or premises are declared to be an infected premises—

(a) all persons who have been on such land or premises within the previous 7 days shall within 24 hours of the publication of the declaration notify the fact to the inspector;

(b) all persons who have moved or caused to be moved from such land or premises within the previous 28 days any animal, horse, ass, mule, live poultry, hare, rabbit, dog, carcase, milk, hay, straw, fodder, litter, dung, utensil or other thing either animate or inanimate shall within 24 hours after the publication of such declaration notify the fact to the inspector.