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

6.  Instead of restocking in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 5, premises in a vaccination zone may be restocked if the following conditions are satisfied—

(a) an inspector of the Department has, within the 24 hours prior to introduction, carried out a clinical examination on every susceptible animal on the premises supplying an animal to be introduced without having identified signs of the disease;

(b) no animal to be introduced has come from a protection or surveillance zone;

(c) every animal to be introduced has been tested for antibodies against the disease by an inspector after the end of its incubation period with negative results or a serological survey shall has been completed on the animals to be introduced with negative results.