The Transport of Animals (Cleansing and Disinfection) (Wales) Order 2001

Cleansing and disinfection in relation to the transport of hoofed animals and poultry

3.—(1) This article shall apply in relation to the cleansing and disinfection of means of transport used for the following animals (other than in the circumstances specified in Schedule 2)—

(a) hoofed animals;

(b) racing pigeons; and

(c) the following if they are reared or kept in captivity for breeding, the production of meat or eggs for consumption or for restocking supplies of game: domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea-fowls, quails, pigeons, pheasants, partridges and ratites.

(2) Where a means of transport has been used to transport any animal or anything which may give rise to the transmission of a disease affecting animals, the user of the means of transport shall, as soon as reasonably practicable and not more than 24 hours after the journey is completed, ensure that it and its equipment are cleansed and disinfected in accordance with Schedule 1, or, where appropriate, destroyed.

(3) No person shall use, or cause or permit the use of, any means of transport to transport any animal unless the means of transport and its equipment have been cleansed and disinfected in accordance with Schedule 1 since it was last used to transport any animal or anything which may give rise to the transmission of a disease affecting animals.

(4) If a means of transport has become soiled so that it may give rise to a risk of transmission of disease since last being cleansed and disinfected, no person shall load, or cause or permit to be loaded, any animal into the means of transport unless it has been again cleansed and disinfected in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 1.

(5) Any person transporting any animal shall remove any dead animals, soiled bedding and excreta from the means of transport as soon as possible.