Pleuro-pneumonia:N.I.
2.—(1) The Department shall cause to be slaughtered all [F1susceptible animals] affected with pleuro-pneumonia.
(2) The Department may in any case cause to be slaughtered—
(a)any [F2susceptible animal] suspected of being affected with pleuro-pneumonia; and
(b)any [F2susceptible animal] which are or which have been in contact with [F2susceptible animal] affected with pleuro-pneumonia, or which appear to the Department to have been in any way exposed to the infection of pleuro-pneumonia.
(3) Where the Department has decided that any [F3susceptible animal] is to be slaughtered under this paragraph, the Department shall, if the owner of such [F3susceptible animal] by notice so requires, cause the same to be slaughtered within twenty-one days after the receipt of the notice.
[F4(4) In this paragraph, “susceptible animal” means animal of the genus Ovis, Capra, Gazella, Bison, Bos or Bubalus, or of the species Syncerus cafer.]
F1Words in Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(1) substituted (8.11.2023) by The Specified Diseases (Notification) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/179), arts. 1, 4(2)(a)(i)
F2Words in Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(2) substituted (8.11.2023) by The Specified Diseases (Notification) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/179), arts. 1, 4(2)(a)(i)
F3Words in Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(3) substituted (8.11.2023) by The Specified Diseases (Notification) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/179), arts. 1, 4(2)(a)(ii)