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Changes over time for: Section 21
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Version Superseded: 19/10/2011
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Consignments constituting a danger to healthE+W
21.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where checks at a quarantine centre, quarantine facility or border inspection post or the test results referred to in regulation 18(7) reveal that an animal or a consignment of animals is likely to constitute a danger to animal or human health, the official veterinarian must immediately seize and destroy the animal or consignment (as the case may be) and the costs of such action are payable by the importer or the importer's representative.
[(2) A veterinary inspector —
(a)must take or require to be taken, the action required under Article 13(1) and (2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 318/2007 in relation to avian influenza or Newcastle disease suspected at a quarantine centre or quarantine facility where captive birds are quarantined, imposing such restrictions as are required by that Article;
(b)must, where the Welsh Ministers grant a derogation provided for in Article 14 of that Commission Regulation (relating to findings of low pathogenic avian influenza or Newcastle disease), take or require to be taken such further measures and impose such restrictions as are required under Article 14;
(c)who requires action to be taken by, or imposes restrictions upon, a quarantine manager or other person under this paragraph, must do so by serving notice specifying the action or restrictions to be taken or observed.
(3) In the event of non-compliance by a quarantine manager with Article 15 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 318/2007 (requiring treatment of birds suspected of infection with Chlamydophyla psittaci), a veterinary inspector may treat the captive birds concerned, or cause them to be treated, as required by Article 15, and must serve notice extending the period of quarantine required under Commission Regulation (EC) No. 318/2007.]
(4) A veterinary inspector serving a notice under paragraphs (2) and (3) must serve it upon the quarantine manager or other person appearing to be in charge of the centre or facility at the time of service; and must as soon as practically possible send a copy by way of information to the importer of the birds concerned.
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