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This Order revokes and re-enacts with amendments the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/3250).
It extends the definition of “specified animal pathogen” to include nucleic acid derived from a pathogen listed in the Schedule and which may be capable of producing that pathogen (article 3). It prohibits the possession of the pathogens listed in Part I of the Schedule and the introduction into any animal of any pathogen listed in the Schedule, except under the authority of a licence issued by the appropriate Minister.
If any person who does not hold such a licence possesses anything which he suspects contains a pathogen listed in Part I of the Schedule he is required to notify a veterinary inspector (article 4). There are exceptions for veterinary and human medicines (article 5). There are provisions relating to powers of inspectors and production of licences (articles 6 and 7). The Order is enforced by the local authority (article 8).
The Schedule is amended to include in the list of specified animal pathogens Babesia bovis, Babesia bigemina, Bovine leukosis virus, Brucella abortus, Cowdria ruminatum, Equine morbillivirus, Japanese encephalitis virus, Mycoplasma capricolum sub species capripneumoniae, all rabies viruses, Theileria parva, Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma congolense, Trypanosoma simiae, and Trypanosoma vivax. Only pathogenic or uncharacterised strains of Newcastle diesase are included. The live virus causing viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits is included only in Part II of the Schedule. Horse pox virus and Trypanosoma theileri have been removed from the Schedule.
A Regulatory Appraisal has been prepared and placed in the Library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Animal Health (Disease Control) Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Government Buildings, Hook Rise South, Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey KT6 7NF.
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