The Transport of Animals (Cleansing and Disinfection) (Scotland) Regulations 2000

regulations 3, 4, 5 and 6

SCHEDULE 1 Methods of cleansing and disinfection

1.  Where animals are transported in a means of transport without first having been placed in a container, all feedingstuffs to which animals have had access, excreta, bedding, other material of animal origin, mud and other contaminants shall be removed from the means of transport using any appropriate means. All internal surfaces of the vehicle (other than the cab) and, if they are visibly contaminated, the external surfaces and the wheels of the means of transport shall be washed with water, steam or where appropriate chemicals or chemical compounds so that they are free of contamination which could spread disease.

2.  Where animals are transported in a container, the container shall be cleansed in accordance with the preceding paragraph as if it were a means of transport or, where appropriate, destroyed. In addition, the means of transport itself shall be cleansed in accordance with the preceding paragraph where it has been soiled so as to create a risk of spreading disease.

3.  Fittings, accessories or equipment (whether detachable or not) shall be cleansed with water, steam or where appropriate chemicals or chemical compounds so that they are free of all contamination which could spread disease.

4.  Disinfection shall be carried out after cleansing has been completed, using a disinfectant approved for the purpose under or in accordance with the Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) Order 1978(1) or, where an inspector has required the use of a particular cleansing agent under regulation 6, that cleansing agent.

regulation 4

SCHEDULE 2 Circumstances in which regulation 4 applies

Journey made on a single farming enterprise

1.  Regulation 4, rather than regulation 3, shall apply in relation to the transport of all animals if the journey is made within a single farming enterprise in one ownership.

Transport of certain horses

2.  Regulation 4, rather than regulation 3, shall apply in relation to the transport of–

(a) any horse which is used for recreational or sporting purposes only; or

(b) for the transport of horses kept at stables licensed by the Jockey Club to or from race meetings, or to or from a place at which horses kept at those stables undergo training for racing.

Journeys between the same two points

3.—(1) Regulation 4, rather than regulation 3, shall apply in relation to a means of transport which is used exclusively, in the course of a single day, for the transport of animals between the same two points, other than between markets, provided that the means of transport is cleansed and disinfected in accordance with Schedule 1 within 24 hours of the last journey during which an animal is transported during that day, and in any event before the means of transport is used again in connection with the transport of any animal or thing.

(2) In this paragraph “last journey” includes–

(a) a journey begun but not completed before midnight on the day in question; and

(b) where the hoofed animal carried has been participating in an event taking place during or continuing into, the evening of the day in question, a journey commenced as soon as practicable after the end of that event, whether or not it begins before midnight.

Temporary unloading

4.  Regulation 4, rather than regulation 3, shall apply in the case of a means of transport from which animals have been unloaded solely to be fed or watered, or for some other temporary purpose, and then reloaded.

Article 10

SCHEDULE 3

PART I REVOCATIONS

Instrument	Reference	Extent of revocation
The Transit of Animals Order 1927	SR&O 1927/289	Articles 1, 2, 8, 21, 22, 23, 27 and 28
Order of the Minister dated May 9, 1927 amending The Transit of Animals Order 1927	SR&O 1927/399	The whole Order
The Horses (Sea Transport) Order 1952	S.I. 1952/1291	Articles 14 and 15
The Transit of Animals (Road and Rail) Order 1975	S.I. 1975/1024	Articles 15 and 16, Schedule 1 Parts II and III and Schedule 3
The Importation of Animals Order 1977	S.I. 1977/944	Articles 4(1), 5(6), 5(7), 6 and 15
The Diseases of Poultry Order 1994	S.I. 1994/3141	Article 10(2)
The Welfare of Animals (Transport) Order 1997	S.I. 1997/1480	Article 15(2) and paragraph 26 of Schedule 1

PART II AMENDMENTS

In the Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/11), for:

(a) conditions 4 and 5 of Schedule 2;

(b) conditions 3 and 4 of Schedule 3;

(c) conditions 3 and 4 of Schedule 4;

(d) conditions 5 and 6 of Schedule 5;

(e) conditions 4 and 5 of Schedule 6; and

(f) conditions 5 and 6 of Schedule 7,

there shall in each case be substituted the following:–

• “Means of transport must be cleansed and disinfected in accordance with the Transport of Animals (Cleansing and Disinfection) (Scotland) Regulations 2000.”.

(1)

S.I. 1978/32 as amended by S.I. 1978/934 and S.I. 1997/2347.