The African Swine Fever (England) Order 2003

Measures that apply in respect of holdings from or to which the disease may have been transmitted

9.—(1) Where, following an investigation into the epidemiology of the disease on a holding, a veterinary inspector considers that the disease on an infected or suspected holding may, for any reason, have been transmitted from or to other premises, he may serve a notice under article 5 on the occupier of those premises.

(2) Where disease has been found in animals or carcases in a slaughterhouse, knacker’s yard or on a means of transport, a veterinary inspector may serve a notice under article 5 on the occupier of any premises from which the infected animals or carcases in that slaughterhouse, knacker’s yard or means of transport, have come directly or indirectly within the previous 56 days or, in the case of a means of transport, any premises to which the means of transport has since travelled.