PART VIN.I.VACCINATION

Prohibition on vaccinationN.I.

34.  It is an offence to vaccinate a pig against swine vesicular disease except—

(a)in accordance with regulation 35, or

(b)under the authority of a licence granted by the Department.

Vaccination zoneN.I.

35.—(1) The Department may declare a vaccination zone in which all occupiers of premises inside the zone containing a pig shall ensure the vaccination of those pigs in accordance with that declaration.

(2) An occupier who fails to vaccinate a pig in accordance with the declaration commits an offence.

(3) Premises partly inside and partly outside a vaccination zone are treated as being inside the zone.

(4) In the case of pigs outside a vaccination zone, or if a vaccination zone has not been declared, a veterinary inspector may serve a notice on an occupier of a premises containing a pig requiring that occupier to ensure that the pig is vaccinated in accordance with the notice, and failure to comply with the notice is an offence.

(5) Nothing in paragraph (3) shall deem any part of a premises lying outside Northern Ireland to be within a vaccination zone.

Vaccinated pigsN.I.

36.—(1) A person vaccinating a pig against swine vesicular disease shall ensure that the pig is identified as having been so vaccinated.

(2) If the vaccination was as a result of the declaration of a vaccination zone, a person may not move a vaccinated pig outside the zone except to a slaughterhouse designated for the purpose by the Department where it shall be kept and slaughtered separately from unvaccinated pigs.

(3) Otherwise a person may not move a vaccinated pig from the premises on which it was vaccinated (or, if the licence permitted vaccination in an area, from the area where vaccination is permitted) except to a slaughterhouse designated for the purpose by the Department where it shall be kept and slaughtered separately from unvaccinated pigs.

(4) It is an offence to fail to comply with this regulation.