The Disease Control (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2017

Amendments to the Disease Control (Wales) Order 2003 E+W

5.  After article 8 insert—

Quarantine units

8A.— (1) A quarantine unit may only be used to hold cattle, sheep and goats.

(2) Where animals are held in a quarantine unit under any provision of this Order, and other animals are moved in before they are released from the quarantine unit, no animal may be removed from the quarantine unit before the last date of release of the last animal moved into the quarantine unit.

(3) No person may move any animal off premises direct from a quarantine unit unless the movement is one specified in paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 13 or 14 of Schedule 1.

(4) Where the Welsh Ministers have served on the keeper of cattle a notice requiring the keeper to have any such cattle tested for tuberculosis with a relevant test before a date specified in the notice, no cattle may be held in, or moved into, a quarantine unit on the date of the relevant test unless—

(a) a skin test has been applied to those cattle no more than 60 days before the date of the relevant test, and

(b) the results of the test have been read by a veterinary inspector or an approved veterinary surgeon and are negative.

(5) Where a relevant test for tuberculosis has been applied to such cattle as specified in a notice in paragraph (4) but before the result of that test has been read by an inspector, or an approved veterinary surgeon, the keeper of the cattle may move any animal into a quarantine unit.

(6) A keeper must record—

(a) movement of an animal into a quarantine unit within 24 hours of the movement;

(b) movement of an animal out of a quarantine unit within 3 days of the movement; and

(c) all movements in the holding register within 36 hours of the movement.

(7) Approval of a quarantine unit may be made subject to conditions and may be suspended, amended or revoked by notice in writing at any time by a body accredited by UKAS or by the Welsh Ministers.

(8) In this article—

“approved veterinary surgeon” (“milfeddyg cymeradwy”) means a veterinary surgeon who is approved in accordance with article 2A of the Tuberculosis (Wales) Order 2010(1);

“holding register” (“cofrestr y daliad”) means a register for the purposes of the Cattle Identification (Wales) Regulations 2007(2) or the Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2015(3);

“record” (“cofnodi”) means notifying or reporting the movement of an animal in accordance with the Cattle Identification (Wales) Regulations 2007 or the Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2015;

“relevant test” (“prawf perthnasol”) means—

(a)

a skin test; or

(b)

any other diagnostic test for tuberculosis approved by the Welsh Ministers;

“skin test” (“prawf croen”) means a single intradermal comparative cervical tuberculin test for tuberculosis using bovine and avian tuberculin; and

“tuberculosis” (“twbercwlosis”) means infection with Mycobacterium bovis (M.bovis).”

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 5 in force at 11.9.2017, see art. 1(3)

I2 Art. 2 in force at 11.9.2017, see art. 1(3)

(1)

S.I. 2010/1379 (W. 122) as amended by S.I. 2014/632 (W. 72).

(2)

S.I. 2007/842 (W. 74).

(3)

S.I. 2015/1992 (W. 302).