The Export and Movement Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No.2) Regulations 2007

2.  The premises must have had no animal of a species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease introduced into it during the 21 days prior to transport to slaughter of any animal in the premises susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease (except in the case of pigs, in which case the period of 21 days is reduced to 7 days), unless—

(a) such animal complies with the conditions in regulation 5(3)(c)(i) or 5(3)(d)(i) and was under the supervision of the Secretary of State on a single premises—

(i) complying with paragraph 1 during the 21 days prior to its transport; and

(ii) into which no animal of a species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease was introduced during the 21 days prior to the transport of the animal (except in the case of a pig, in which case the period of 21 days is reduced to 7 days);

(b) a test for antibodies against the foot-and-mouth disease virus was carried out on a blood sample taken from the animal at least 10 days prior to the date of transport to the premises and produced a negative result; or

(c) the animal comes from a premises on which a serological survey pursuant to a sampling protocol suitable to detect 5% prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease with at least 95% level of confidence was conducted and produced negative results.