Amendment of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Declaratory (Scotland) Order 20013.

(1)

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Declaratory Order 20013 is amended in accordance with this article.

(2)

In Schedule 2–

(a)

for paragraph 1 there is substituted–

  • “Articles 18, 19, 26, 28(2) and 28(3)(b) of Part III of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 do not apply.”;

(b)

in each of sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 2 after “a licence issued by” there shall be inserted “the Scottish Ministers or”; and

(c)

there shall be inserted after paragraph 2(g) the following sub-paragraph:–

“(h)

no person shall move, or cause to be moved, into, out of or within an infected area any embryo, ovum or semen except with the written approval of a veterinary inspector and subject to such conditions as may be specified therein.”.