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PART 2Testing and Movement

Notification of disease in bovine animals

8.—(1) Any person who—

(a)has possession or charge of any bovine animal which the person suspects is or may be an affected animal;

(b)in the course of the person’s practice as a veterinary surgeon examines a bovine animal which the person suspects is or may be an affected animal; or

(c)in the course of the person’s duties inspects, for any purpose, a bovine animal which the person suspects is or may be an affected animal,

must notify the Welsh Ministers immediately.

(2) Any person who has possession or charge of any bovine animal which the person suspects is or may be an affected animal must, pending conclusion of the veterinary inquiry under article 10 and the service of any notice under that article, immediately–

(a)detain that animal on the premises where it then is;

(b)isolate it as far as practicable from other bovine animals; and

(c)adopt precautions with respect to milk produced by that animal as if a notice under article 10 had already been served.