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The Swine Vesicular Disease Regulations 2009

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Protection, surveillance and movement restriction zones

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24.—(1) This regulation applies where the Secretary of State confirms premises as infected premises.

(2) Unless the premises are listed in paragraph (3) the Secretary of State—

(a)must declare a protection zone and a surveillance zone around the infected premises, and

(b)may declare a movement restriction zone.

(3) If the infected premises are—

(a)a slaughterhouse,

(b)a veterinary surgery where a pig has been brought for examination, or

(c)any other place to which a pig has been brought temporarily and which the Secretary of State does not consider to be the centre of infection,

the Secretary of State may (but need not) declare a protection zone, surveillance zone and movement restriction zone around the premises.

(4) The protection zone must have a radius of at least three kilometres and the surveillance zone must have a radius of at least ten kilometres, both centred on the part of the premises that the Secretary of State considers most appropriate for disease control.

(5) The Secretary of State must ensure that—

(a)premises within a protection zone or a surveillance zone that contain pigs are identified as soon as possible, and

(b)a veterinary inspector visits all such premises that are within a protection zone, as soon as possible and—

(i)inspects and as necessary examines the pigs, and

(ii)collects and tests such samples as the veterinary inspector considers necessary.

(6) Schedule 2 sets out measures that apply in protection zones and surveillance zones, and breach of any of those measures is an offence.

(7) The Secretary of State may declare that any other measure necessary to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, the spread of swine vesicular disease virus applies in respect of the whole or any part of any protection zone or surveillance zone.

(8) Premises—

(a)partly inside and partly outside a protection zone are treated as being inside it;

(b)partly inside a surveillance zone and partly in an area other than a protection zone are treated as being inside the surveillance zone;

(c)partly inside a movement restriction zone and partly in an area other than a surveillance zone are treated as being inside the movement restriction zone.

(9) When the Secretary of State declares the end of any protection zone, the area that formed that protection zone becomes part of the surveillance zone.

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