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Specified Diseases (Notification) (Amendment) (England) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 2023 of 2015).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
England
Document type
Regulation
Date
2015
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Livestock
Keyword
Animal health Pests/diseases Inspection Data collection/reporting
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

This Order amends the Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1996 in England by adding porcine epidemic diarrhoea to the list of animal diseases in Part 1 of Schedule 1 so that suspicion of the infection of porcine epidemic diarrhoea in pigs must be notified to the Secretary of State by the keeper of the pigs. The Order inserts a requirement for the Secretary of State to share the information with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board. The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board may advise the affected keeper and other pig keepers regarding appropriate precautions to take to protect their pigs from porcine epidemic diarrhoea. It may also raise awareness of porcine epidemic diarrhoea by disseminating information about the disease more widely to the pig industry.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Amends

Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1996 (S.I. No. 2628 of 2006).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 1996

Keyword: Animal health, Pests/diseases, Data collection/reporting, Slaughtering

Source: FAO, FAOLEX