Part V

Enforcement, Offences and Proceedings

Enforcement

Tests and samples: power of entry
62D
1
A veterinary inspector may at any time enter any premises for the purpose of ascertaining—
a
whether disease anti-bodies exist in animals on the premises;
b
whether any animal on the premises or which was kept there at any time is, or was at that time, infected with disease;
c
whether any causative agent of disease is present on the premises.
2
Disease is foot-and-mouth disease and such other disease as the Secretary of State may by order specify.
3
No order may be made under subsection (2) unless a draft of the order has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House.
4
Causative agent includes any virus, bacterium and any other organism or infectious substance which may cause or transmit disease.
5
In this section and sections 62E and 62F premises includes any land, building or other place.
Ss. 62D-62F inserted (E.W.) (14.1.2003) by 2002 c. 42, s. 9; S.I. 2002/3044, art. 2