The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Export and Movement Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 No. 518

PART 2 Movement and export: animals, meat and meat products

Occupiers of slaughterhouses and other premises

16.—(1) If the disease is identified in premises the occupier must ensure that–

(a) all animals present are slaughtered;

(b) all meat and dead animals are removed;

(c) the establishment is cleansed and disinfected under the supervision of the Scottish Ministers; and

(d) no meat is prepared for consigning outside the areas listed in Schedule 2 for 24 hours following the completion of the cleansing and disinfection required by sub-paragraph (c).

(2) If an animal from the restricted area is slaughtered in premises the occupier must ensure that–

(a) all animals present are slaughtered; and

(b) the establishment is cleansed and disinfected under the supervision of the Scottish Ministers; and

(c) no meat is prepared for consigning outside the restricted area until the completion of the cleansing and disinfection required by sub-paragraph (b).

(3) In this regulation, “premises” means a slaughterhouse, an approved holding on which farmed game is slaughtered, or a game-handling establishment which handles meat controlled under these Regulations.