The Swine Vesicular Disease (Scotland) Order 2009

Article 28(6)

SCHEDULE 3 Measures in a surveillance zone

Movement of pigs

1.—(1) No person may move pigs off premises in a surveillance zone except in accordance with a licence granted by a veterinary inspector or an inspector acting under the direction of a veterinary inspector.

(2) A licence may be granted if–

(a) a veterinary surgeon has inspected all pigs on the premises within the 48 hours preceding the movement;

(b) a veterinary surgeon has carried out a clinical examination of the pigs to be moved with negative results in the 48 hours preceding the movement;

(c) a serological examination of a statistical sample of the pigs to be moved has been carried out at the owner’s expense without the detection of antibodies to swine vesicular disease within the 14 days preceding the movement; and

(d) vehicles and equipment used for the transport of the pigs are cleansed and disinfected after each transport operation.

(3) In addition, a licence may be granted for movement–

(a) to a slaughterhouse in the surveillance zone designated for the purpose by the Scottish Ministers where they are kept and slaughtered separately from other pigs;

(b) to other premises in the surveillance zone provided that no pigs have moved into the premises of origin in the previous 21 days.

Cleansing vehicles

2.  Vehicles and equipment used within the surveillance zone to transport–

(a) pigs; or

(b) other livestock or material which may be contaminated with the swine vesicular disease virus,

may not leave the surveillance zone without having been cleansed and disinfected in such a way as to minimise the risk of spread of the swine vesicular disease virus.

(2) In the case of a livestock vehicle the cleansing and disinfection must be in accordance with paragraph 4(2) and (3) of Schedule 2.

(3) This paragraph does not apply in relation to vehicles travelling through the surveillance zone without stopping.