Animal Health Act 1981

20 Additional provisions under s. 17 on rabies infection. E+W+S

(1) An order under section 17 above prescribing the cases in which areas are to be declared to be infected with rabies may include provision for—

(a) requiring notice to be given, in such circumstances as may be prescribed by the order, of the death in an area declared to be so infected of such domestic or wild mammals as may be prescribed;

(b) regulating the ownership and disposal of the carcases of animals whose deaths are required to be notified by virtue of paragraph (a) above;

(c) requiring and regulating the vaccination, confinement and control in such area of such domestic mammals and mammals held in captivity as may be prescribed by the order;

(d) authorising the seizure and detention and the disposal or destruction of any animal in respect of which any provision made by virtue of paragraph (c) above is not complied with;

(e) authorising any person to enter any land for the purpose of seizing or destroying any animal in pursuance of the order.

(2) An order under section 17 prescribing the cases in which areas are to be declared to be infected with rabies may provide—

(a) for the division of an area into zones (whether defined by reference to distance from the places within the area where diseased animals have been found or otherwise); and

(b) for the consequences which may follow a declaration to be different for different zones.