The Fish Health Regulations 1992

Notification of disease

11.—(1) Without prejudice to any obligations under section 4(5) and section 4A(5) of the Diseases of Fish Act 1937(1), any person who—

(a) knows of any abnormal death or other symptom amongst fish or molluscs which might constitute grounds for suspecting the presence of a disease listed in Schedule 1; or

(b) has any reason for suspecting the presence amongst fish or molluscs of a disease listed in Schedule 1;

shall notify the Minister as quickly as possible.

(2) Any person who has in his possession or under his charge an infected item, or an item which he suspects is an infected item, shall detain it until—

(a) it has been examined by a veterinary inspector; or

(b) a veterinary inspector has instructed him to dispose of it.

(3) A veterinary inspector shall have powers to take such samples of or from fish or molluscs as may be necessary to establish whether a disease listed in Schedule 1 is present amongst fish or molluscs.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation—

“infected item” means a fish or mollusc or the carcase or part of the carcase of the same which is infected with a disease listed in Schedule 1.

(1)

1937 c. 33; sections 4 and 4 A were substituted by the Diseases of Fish Act 1983 (c. 30).