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The African Swine Fever (Scotland) Order 2003

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Measures where the disease is confirmed in a feral pig

14.—(1) Where the presence of the disease is confirmed in a feral pig in Scotland, or in England within ten kilometres of the border with Scotland, the Scottish Ministers shall, by declaratory order, establish an infected area within Scotland of sufficient size to cover any area where it is suspected that the disease may be present.

(2) The Scottish Ministers may apply any or all of the requirements of Part I of Schedule 2 to any holding, slaughterhouse, knacker’s yard or other place within the infected area and any or all of the restrictions and requirements of Part II of Schedule 2 within the infected area and may also suspend the hunting and ban the feeding of feral pigs in that area.

(3) The Scottish Ministers may by declaratory order impose a ban within an infected area on–

(a)pig breeding; and

(b)the establishment, of new, of a holding

and may make such a declaratory order subject to such conditions as they think fit.

(4) That part of any holding, slaughterhouse, knacker’s yard or other place which is within Scotland and which is partly inside and partly outside an infected area established under this article shall be deemed to be wholly inside that area.

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