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

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

Dispatch, transit and export of animals

9.—(1) No person shall dispatch an animal from Scotland.

(2) By way of derogation from paragraph (1), a person may export an animal originating outside Great Britain if the–

(a) animal has made a direct and uninterrupted transit through Scotland travelling only on main roads or railway lines; and

(b) the first and second conditions are met.

(3) The first condition is that at least three days before export the Scottish Ministers have notified the central and local veterinary authorities of the member State of the intended export.

(4) The second condition is that the animal is accompanied by a health certificate which bears in the case of–

(a) a bovine, porcine, ovine and caprine animal, the words–

• “Animals conforming to Commission Decision 2007/554/EC of 9th August 2007 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom”; and

(b) any other animal, the words–

• “Live biungulates conforming to Commission Decision 2007/554/EC of 9th August 2007 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom”.