2. In the Foot and Mouth Disease Order 1983(1) there shall be substituted for article 35B(1) and (2)(2), as follows:–
“(1) If the Scottish Ministers have confirmed foot and mouth disease in any part of a local authority area, the local authority of that area may, by regulations published in such manner as those regulations shall specify, prohibit (for the purposes of preventing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease) the movement of any person into or out of an area identified in those regulations except on a public road.
(2) The local authority of an area where foot and mouth disease has not been confirmed may, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers, by regulations published in such manner as those regulations shall specify, prohibit (for the purposes of preventing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease) the movement of any person into or out of an area identified in those regulations except on a public road.”.
S.I. 1983/1950, as amended by S.I. 1993/3119, S.I. 1995/2922 and, as regards Scotland, by S.S.I. 2001/52.
Article 35B was inserted by S.S.I. 2001/52