The Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Additional measures in a protection and surveillance zone

35.—(1) If the Department considers that action is necessary to reduce the risk of the spread of avian influenza, it must impose by declaration measures additional to those in Schedules 4 and 5 in respect of a protection or surveillance zone.

(2) The power of the Department to declare additional measures includes the power to prohibit or restrict—

(a) the movement of vehicles or people involved in—

(i) the supply of animal feed,

(ii) the supply of agricultural equipment,

(iii) the collection of eggs,

(iv) the transportation of poultry to a designated slaughterhouse,

(v) the collection of carcases for disposal;

(b) the movement of those working on premises including veterinary surgeons;

(c) the movement of a person onto any premises including common, unenclosed and waste land and agricultural buildings, notwithstanding the existence of any public or private right of way or any other right of access to, or permission to gain access to, the premises.

(3) The power to prohibit or restrict movement under paragraph (2)(c) applies only in relation to a protection zone and does not include a power to prohibit or restrict movement onto premises by—

(a) the owner or occupier of the premises;

(b) a person whose principal residence or place of employment is those premises;

(c) a person entering under the authority of and in accordance with the conditions of a licence granted by the Department.

(4) In this regulation “veterinary surgeon” means a person who is registered in the register of veterinary surgeons maintained by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons or in the supplementary register maintained by the College.