Foot-and-mouth Disease:N.I.
3. The Department may in any case cause to be slaughtered—
(a)any animals affected with foot-and-mouth disease, or suspected of being so affected; and
(b)any animals which are of have been in contact with animals affected with foot-and-mouth disease, or which appear to the Department to have been in any way exposed to the infection of foot-and-mouth disease.