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PART 2Notification, suspicion and investigation of disease

Declaration of supplementary movement control zone

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

(a)shall be of such size as they consider 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 Scottish Ministers amend the declaration of the supplementary movement control zone so as to exclude that area; or

(d)the Scottish Ministers revoke 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) 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 period shall not exceed 72 hours from the time the declaration was made.