This Order amends the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Declaratory (Controlled Area) (Scotland) (No. 3) Order 2001 (“the Controlled Area Order”) to allow the Scottish Ministers or an inspector of the Scottish Ministers to authorise hunting by licence.

It also allows an inspector of the Scottish Ministers or the Scottish Ministers to specify in licence conditions the period within which animals must be slaughtered after arrival at a slaughterhouse in the licence conditions.

It also amends the restrictions in the Controlled Area Order to prohibit the ultrasound scanning of sheep, except under the conditions of a licence issued by the Scottish Ministers.