The Importation of Animals Order 1977

2.—(1) The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Controlled Areas Restrictions) General Order of 1938(1), as amended(2), shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) Article 3 (movement into a controlled area) shall cease to have effect, and the following Article shall be substituted therefore:—

“Movement into a Controlled Area

3.— (1) No animal shall be moved into a controlled area except direct to—

(a) a farm or slaughterhouse, or

(b) premises approved under Article 10(1) of the Importation of Animals Order 1977 for use for the detention in quarantine of imported animals, or for the reception and resting of such animals,

and then only if accompanied by and in accordance with the conditions of a licence granted under this order by an Inspector of the local authority or (in the case of an animal to which sub-paragraph (b) above applies) a veterinary inspector.

(2) An animal to which paragraph (1)(a) above applies shall be detained on the farm for a period of 14 days, or slaughtered in the slaughterhouse, as the case may be, in accordance with the conditions of the licence.

(3) Nothing in this Article shall be deemed to authorise the granting of a licence for the movement of any animal into a controlled area from an infected area.”.

(3) There shall be inserted at the end of Article 4 (movement within a controlled area) the following paragraphs:—

“(6) Subject to paragraph (7) below, the foregoing provisions of this Article shall not apply to the movement of imported animals—

(a) from the port or airport at which they are landed to premises approved under Article 10(1) of the Importation of Animals Order 1977 for use for the detention in quarantine of imported animals, or for the reception and resting of such animals; or

(b) from such approved premises under the authority of a licence issued under Article 11(5) of that order.

(7) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (6) above, imported animals shall, after they have been moved to premises under the authority of a licence referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph, be detained thereat in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2) above.”.

(1)

(Rev. II, p. 520: 1938 I, p. 169).

(2)

S.I. 1956/101, 1967/1723, 1968/51, 1969/1446 (1956 I, p. 175; 1967 III, p. 4648; 1968 I, p. 114; 1969 III, p. 4675).