The Tuberculosis in Specified Animals (Scotland) Order 2015

Precautions against spread of infection

14.  Where the Scottish Ministers are satisfied that any specified animal kept on any premises is an affected animal or a suspected animal, or where tuberculosis has been identified on any premises, a veterinary inspector may, by notice served on the keeper of any such animal, require the keeper or the person in occupation or in charge of the premises (as appropriate)—

(a) to treat and store manure or slurry from any place which has been used by the animal in accordance with the requirements of the notice;

(b) not to spread any manure or to spray or spread any slurry from any place which has been used by the animal otherwise than in accordance with any requirements of the notice;

(c) not to remove from the premises, except under the authority of a licence issued by a veterinary inspector, manure, slurry or other animal waste, straw, litter or other matter which, to that person’s knowledge, has or might have come into contact with the animals on the premises;

(d) to take reasonable steps to prevent any specified animal kept on the premises from infecting any other farmed animal kept on the same premises or on any adjoining premises;

(e) to arrange for the isolation of any specified animals to the extent stipulated in the notice;

(f) to ensure that such part of the premises as may be stipulated in the notice is not used by any specified animal, or by such other animal, for such period as may be stipulated in the notice;

(g) to cleanse and disinfect at the keeper’s own expense, with an approved disinfectant, such part of the premises as may be stipulated in the notice, within such time and in such manner as may be so stipulated;

(h) to cleanse and disinfect at the keeper’s own expense, with an approved disinfectant, all utensils and other articles used for or in relation to the animal, within such time and in such manner as may be stipulated in the notice; and

(i) to take such other action as the veterinary inspector considers appropriate.