The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Control of Vaccination) (Wales) Regulations 2006

Movement of susceptible animals during phase 3 E+W

3.—(1) During phase 3, no person is permitted to move any susceptible animal within or out of a vaccination zone except within premises or under the authority of a licence granted by the National Assembly.

(2) No licence for movement out of the vaccination zone is to be granted under sub-paragraph (1) except where it is for direct transport from premises classified under regulation 25(1)(b) as free of disease to a slaughterhouse for the purposes of immediate slaughter and it complies with the conditions in sub-paragraph (3).

(3) The conditions of this sub-paragraph are that—

(a) the animals do not come into contact with any other susceptible animals during transport; and

(b) the animals are accompanied during transport by a copy of the notice classifying their premises of origin under regulation 25(1)(b), certified as a true copy by an inspector.

(4) No licence for movement within the vaccination zone is to be granted under this paragraph unless—

(a) it specifies a route to be taken which, in the opinion of the person granting the licence, ensures the animals are not exposed to infection during the journey, and either—

(i) the animals concerned are unvaccinated, and the conditions in sub-paragraph (5) have been complied with, or

(ii) the movement is from one part of premises to another part of the same premises using an intervening public highway.

(5) The conditions in this sub-paragraph are that—

(a) the National Assembly has within the previous 24 hours carried out a clinical examination on every susceptible animal on the premises of origin and has not identified signs of disease;

(b) every susceptible animal on the premises of origin has been kept there for at least 30 days;

(c) the premises of origin is not in a protection zone or a surveillance zone; and

(d) either—

(i) every animal intended for transport has been tested by a veterinary inspector for antibodies against disease after it has been on the premises of origin for a period at least as long as its incubation period with negative results, or

(ii) a serological survey pursuant to a sampling protocol suitable to detect 5% prevalence with at least 95% level of confidence has been completed on the premises of origin with negative result by a veterinary inspector.

(6) No licence is to be granted under this paragraph for movement of the unvaccinated offspring of a vaccinated dam unless either—

(a) each animal has undergone a serological test by a veterinary inspector for the detection of antibodies against disease with a negative result; or

(b) the licence is for movement to—

(i) premises in the vaccination zone with the same classification under regulation 25(1)(b);

(ii) a slaughterhouse for immediate slaughter; or

(iii) other specified premises in which case sub-paragraph (7) applies; or

(c) the licence is for a movement within sub-paragraph (4)(a)(ii).

(7) Where this sub-paragraph applies, during phase 3 no person is permitted to subsequently move any animal moved from those specified premises except for—

(a) movement to a slaughterhouse for immediate slaughter, or

(b) movement from one part of the premises to another part of the same premises using an intervening public highway.

(8) The occupier of any slaughterhouse to which susceptible animals are transported under the authority of a licence granted under this paragraph from premises classified as free of disease under regulation 25(1)(b) must ensure that—

(a) before slaughter each animal undergoes an ante-mortem health check at the slaughterhouse, and

(b) at the slaughterhouse, the transported animals do not come into contact with other animals.