The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment)(Wales)(No.6) Order 2001

Movement Of Animals

18.—(1) No person shall move animals from the premises on which the animals are kept except under the authority of a licence issued by the Minister or an inspector.

(2) No person shall move animals on public or private roads (other than the service roads of premises) except under the authority of a licence issued by the Minister or an inspector.

(3) No person shall transport animals through the infected area except if the animals are transiting through that area by motorway, trunk road or railway.

(4) An inspector may, by licence issued in the form set out in Schedule 6 to this Order, permit, for the purposes of slaughter, the movement within an infected area of—

(a)animals direct to a slaughterhouse approved by the Minister to slaughter animals moved by licence issued under this article; and

(b)sheep or cattle to a collecting centre, licensed by the local authority under article 35, for onward movement direct to a slaughterhouse approved under paragraph (a) above.

(5) A veterinary inspector may, by licence, permit, for the purposes of slaughter, the movement out of an infected area of animals direct to a slaughterhouse approved by the Minister to slaughter animals moved by licence issued under this article.

(6) For the purposes of this article, licences or approvals issued in Scotland or England operate as if granted in Wales.

(7) Where an animal is moved to a slaughterhouse under this article, the occupier of the slaughterhouse shall ensure that the animal is slaughtered at those premises in accordance with any condition relating to slaughter specified in the licence and in any event within 24 hours of arrival there.

(8) The person in charge of the vehicle in which animals are moved under this article shall ensure that it is thoroughly cleansed and disinfected in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to this Order as soon as possible after the animals have been unloaded and, in any case, before the vehicle is moved from the delivery premises.

(9) The occupier of premises to which animals are moved under this article shall—

(a)ensure that he or she or his or her representative is given the licence under which they have been moved before allowing the animals to be unloaded from the vehicle on which they have been transported;

(b)forward that licence without delay to the local authority responsible for the area in which those premises are situated and, in the case of a slaughterhouse, provide a copy to the official veterinary surgeon appointed for those premises;

(c)retain a copy of that licence for a period of 6 months and produce it upon request for inspection by an inspector;

(d)provide adequate facilities, equipment and materials for the cleansing and disinfection in accordance with this article of the vehicle that delivered the animals to the premises; and

(e)in the case of a collecting centre, ensure that sheep are marked or tagged so as to enable the identity of the collecting centre and the farm from which they were moved to be established throughout their onward movement to a slaughterhouse.