The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995

Regulation of sales of pigs

13.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to hold a sale of pigs (whether at a market or elsewhere) save in accordance with a licence issued by an inspector of the local authority for the area in which the sale premises are situated.

(2) A licence shall not be issued under paragraph (1) above, and a sale shall not be held, unless—

(a) in the case of a sale to be held at a market—

(i) the premises are paved with a surface impervious to water and are habitually kept thoroughly cleansed and disinfected as soon as practicable after being used and before being so used again; and

(ii) the premises have adequate disinfection facilities to enable all vehicles used for carrying pigs to or from the premises to be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected or that such facilities exist near the premises to which such vehicles can be directed for cleansing and disinfection;

(b) in the case of a sale to be held on a farm, the sale will comprise only pigs forming the whole or part of the standing herd of that farm and no pigs shall have been moved on to the farm on the day of the sale or within a period of 20 days preceding the day of the sale (other than pigs moved on to the farm in accordance with the provisions of article 8(3) above).

(3) A licence authorising the holding of a sale on premises used as a market shall specify that it applies either—

(a) to pigs which have come from premises on which article 8 has been complied with; or

(b) to pigs intended for immediate slaughter,

which are accompanied by a declaration in the form set out in Schedule 2.

(4) Nothing in this article shall apply to the holding during or at the end of any exhibition or show of pigs and at the premises on which the exhibition or show is held, of any sale of those pigs, if—

(a) all the pigs moved to those premises for the purpose of the exhibition or show have been entered for it not less than seven days before the day on which the sale began; and

(b) no pigs other than pigs so entered for the exhibition or show are on those premises on the day on which the sale is held or have been there within the period of twenty days immediately before the first day of the sale.